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Traffic fatalities dropped by 3.9 percent from 2006 to 2007 for the Nation as a whole. Thirty-five States and Puerto Rico showed decreases, ranging from less than 1 percent to as much as 24 percent.
[States 2007]
Thirty-two percent of all fatal crashes involved alcohol-impaired driving, where the highest blood alcohol concentration (BAC) among drivers involved in the crash was .08 grams per deciliter (g/dL) or higher. For fatal crashes occurring from midnight to 3 a.m., 65 percent involved alcohol-impaired driving.
[Crashes 2007]
Large trucks accounted for 8 percent of the vehicles in fatal crashes, but only 3 percent of the vehicles involved in injury crashes and 5 percent of the vehicles involved in property-damage-only crashes. Of the 4,584 large trucks involved in fatal crashes, 74 percent were combination trucks.
[Vehicles 2007]

* National Statistics

File Versions	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	1996	1995	1994
Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes
Fatal Crashes	34,017	37,435	38,648	39,252	38,444	38,477	38,491	37,862	37,526	37,140	37,107	37,324	37,494	37,241	36,254
Traffic Crash Fatalities
Vehicle Occupants
Drivers	19,220	21,717	22,831	23,237	23,158	23,352	23,625	22,914	22,914	22,971	22,654	22,730	22,572	22,370	21,596
Passengers	7,397	8,716	9,187	9,750	10,042	10,171	10,370	10,227	10,451	10,325	10,327	10,765	10,860	10,576	10,294
Unknown	72	94	101	83	76	104	110	102	86	96	107	114	102	118	108
Sub Total1	26,689	30,527	32,119	33,070	33,276	33,627	34,105	33,243	33,451	33,392	33,088	33,609	33,534	33,064	31,998
Motorcyclists	5,290	5,174	4,837	4,576	4,028	3,714	3,270	3,197	2,897	2,483	2,294	2,116	2,161	2,227	2,320
Nonmotorist
Pedestrians	4,378	4,699	4,795	4,892	4,675	4,774	4,851	4,901	4,763	4,939	5,228	5,321	5,449	5,584	5,489
Pedalcyclists	716	701	772	786	727	629	665	732	693	754	760	814	765	833	802
Other/ Unknown	188	158	185	186	130	140	114	123	141	149	131	153	154	109	107
Sub Total2	5,282	5,558	5,752	5,864	5,532	5,543	5,630	5,756	5,597	5,842	6,119	6,288	6,368	6,526	6,398
Total**	37,261	41,259	42,708	43,510	42,836	42,884	43,005	42,196	41,945	41,717	41,501	42,013	42,065	41,817	40,716
Other National Statistics
Vehicle Miles Traveled (Billions)	2,926	3,030	3,014	2,989	2,965	2,890	2,856	2,797	2,747	2,691	2,632	2,562	2,486	2,423	2,358
Resident Population (Thousands)	304,060	301,290	298,363	295,561	292,892	290,211	287,727	285,040	282,172	272,691	270,248	267,784	265,229	262,803	260,327
Registered Vehicles (Thousands)	-	255,748	251,415	245,628	237,949	230,633	225,685	221,230	217,028	212,685	208,076	203,568	201,631	197,065	192,497
Licensed Drivers (Thousands)	-	205,742	202,810	200,549	198,889	196,166	194,602	191,276	190,625	187,170	184,861	182,709	179,539	176,628	175,403
National Rates: Fatalities
Fatalities per 100 Million Vehicle Miles Traveled	1.27	1.36	1.42	1.46	1.44	1.48	1.51	1.51	1.53	1.55	1.58	1.64	1.69	1.73	1.73
Fatalities per 100,000 Population	12.25	13.69	14.31	14.72	14.63	14.78	14.95	14.80	14.87	15.30	15.36	15.69	15.86	15.91	15.64
Fatalities per 100,000 Registered Vehicles	-	16.13	16.99	17.71	18.00	18.59	19.06	19.07	19.33	19.61	19.95	20.64	20.86	21.22	21.15
Fatalities per 100,000 Licensed Drivers	-	20.05	21.06	21.70	21.54	21.86	22.10	22.06	22.00	22.29	22.45	22.99	23.43	23.68	23.21

** Total fatalities for 1996 include 2 fatalities of unknown person type.