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Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Data^a

	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	(R) 2005	(R) 2006	(R) 2007	(R) 2008	2009	(P) 2010
Fatalities	53	46	57	32	31	28	18	18	33	21	18	38	59	22	34	45	41	42	58	27	36	67	26	44
Injured persons	N	N	N	32,691	20,959	20,144	17,056	15,767	19,214	20,291	16,887	15,559	21,958	17,769	15,427	18,819	18,174	16,410	11,133	9,839	12,141	15,149	12,059	17,067
Vehicles involved in crashes	N	N	N	(R) 61,243	(R) 56,689	(R) 49,856	(R) 51,894	(R) 56,260	(R) 59,135	(R) 57,764	(R) 53,514	(R) 53,493	(R) 63,007	(R) 56,127	(R) 54,310	(R) 57,979	(R) 58,031	(R) 52,366	(R) 51,382	(R) 51,615	56,753	(P) 59,939	57,576	(P) 54,240
Vehicle-miles (millions)	6,055	6,059	4,478	5,726	5,750	5,778	6,125	6,409	6,420	6,563	6,842	7,007	7,662	7,590	7,070	6,845	6,782	6,801	6,980	6,783	14,516	14,823	14,387	13,789
Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles
Fatalities	0.88	0.76	1.27	0.56	0.54	0.48	0.29	0.28	0.51	0.32	0.26	0.54	0.77	0.29	0.48	0.66	0.60	0.62	0.83	0.40	0.25	0.45	0.18	0.32
Injured persons	N	N	N	571	365	349	278	246	299	309	247	222	287	234	218	275	268	241	159	145	84	102	84	124
Vehicles involved in crashes	N	N	N	1,070	(R) 986	(R) 863	(R) 847	878	(R) 921	(R) 880	(R) 782	(R) 763	(R) 822	(R) 739	(R) 768	(R) 847	(R) 856	(R) 770	736	761	391	404	400	393

KEY: N = data do not exist; P = preliminary; R = revised.

^a Bus includes school, transit, and intercity buses.

NOTES

The injury and crash data in this table are from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) General Estimates System (GES). The data from GES, which began operation in 1988, are obtained from a nationally representative probability sample selected from all police-reported crashes. The GES sample includes only crashes where a police accident report was completed and the crash resulted in property damage, injury, or death. The resulting figures do not take into account crashes that were not reported to the police or that did not result in property damage.

Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles figures may differ from those in the source data due to rounding by the source.

SOURCES

Fatalities, and injuries:

1975-2008: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2008 (Final Edition) (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table 4, available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Cats/listpublications.aspx?Id=E&ShowBy=DocType as of April 2010.

2009-10: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, personal communications, Jun. 7, 2012

Vehicle-miles:

1975-94: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table VM-201A, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/hss/index.cfm as of March 2009.

1995-2008: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table VM-1, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/hss/index.cfm as of April 2010.

2009-10: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, personal communications, Jun. 7, 2012

Vehicles involved in crashes:

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Database, National Automotive Sampling System General Estimates System (NASS GES) Database, personal communications, May 25, 2006, and July 23, 2010., and Jun. 7, 2012.

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Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Dataa

Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Data^a