RITA | BTS | Table 2-18: Motor Vehicle Fatalities, Vehicle-Miles, and Associated Rates by Highway Functional System

Table 2-18: Motor Vehicle Fatalities, Vehicle-Miles, and Associated Rates by Highway Functional System

	1980	1985	1990	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	(R) 2009	2010
Fatalities
Rural, total	29,545	24,492	25,786	23,978	24,510	24,889	24,751	25,185	23,640	23,396	25,693	25,203	24,740	23,549	23,099	22,707	20,807	19,190	17,915
Interstate	2,263	2,141	2,707	2,675	2,905	3,033	3,105	3,244	3,199	3,105	3,297	3,241	3,246	3,216	2,870	2,658	2,416	2,045	2,119
Other arterials^a	12,268	9,940	9,893	9,947	9,458	9,821	9,594	9,573	8,913	8,692	9,358	9,823	10,061	8,968	8,768	8,758	7,873	7,609	6,971
Collector^b	10,004	8,209	8,852	7,401	7,481	7,578	7,593	7,595	7,147	7,305	7,974	7,726	7,353	7,154	7,242	7,027	6,491	5,910	5,299
Local	5,010	4,202	4,334	3,955	4,666	4,457	4,459	4,773	4,381	4,294	5,064	4,413	4,080	4,211	4,219	4,264	4,027	3,626	3,526
Urban, total	21,546	19,333	18,813	17,839	17,555	17,078	16,143	15,970	15,695	15,219	16,759	16,825	17,161	17,752	18,309	17,467	15,956	14,460	14,530
Interstate	2,184	2,025	2,252	2,154	2,323	2,281	2,283	2,353	2,388	2,371	2,452	2,374	2,516	2,658	2,619	2,608	2,259	2,049	2,110
Other arterials^a	12,752	12,521	11,742	10,916	10,756	10,243	9,902	9,628	9,442	8,838	9,702	9,827	10,003	10,413	10,672	9,876	9,056	8,155	8,408
Collector	2,226	1,696	1,427	1,441	1,290	1,399	1,037	1,031	987	1,007	1,136	1,197	1,339	1,361	1,478	1,437	1,239	1,158	1,061
Local	4,384	3,091	3,392	3,328	3,186	3,155	2,921	2,958	2,878	3,003	3,469	3,427	3,303	3,320	3,540	3,546	3,402	3,098	2,951
Vehicle-miles of travel (VMT) (millions)
Rural, total	672,030	730,728	868,878	933,289	960,194	999,277	1,032,528	1,062,623	1,083,152	1,109,363	1,127,394	1,084,443	1,068,426	1,032,426	1,037,146	1,032,790	988,235	982,180	984,148
Interstate	135,084	154,357	200,173	223,382	232,565	240,255	251,520	260,166	268,180	273,619	280,609	269,650	266,245	256,642	257,915	256,438	243,221	242,178	245,647
Other arterials^a	262,774	282,803	330,866	368,595	378,847	392,057	403,484	413,320	420,599	427,482	433,930	417,299	409,413	396,455	394,582	393,465	374,235	372,860	376,413
Collector^b	189,468	206,669	240,460	236,148	241,030	254,100	257,868	264,453	267,231	272,074	274,869	262,799	260,664	250,701	251,367	246,927	236,954	231,337	229,357
Local	84,704	86,899	97,379	105,164	107,752	112,865	119,656	124,684	127,142	136,188	137,986	134,695	132,104	128,628	133,282	135,960	133,825	135,805	132,731
Urban, total	855,265	1,044,098	1,275,484	1,489,534	1,523,886	1,552,956	1,595,620	1,627,618	1,663,773	1,686,247	1,728,114	1,805,778	1,896,362	1,957,004	1,977,225	1,998,334	1,988,293	1,974,583	1,982,358
Interstate	161,242	216,188	278,901	341,528	351,579	361,433	374,622	383,259	393,465	399,986	409,208	432,757	455,538	470,925	477,287	483,315	476,114	474,798	477,693
Other arterials^a	484,189	578,270	699,233	815,170	834,623	846,627	862,996	878,153	900,392	913,936	937,935	974,933	1,021,705	1,051,088	1,060,266	1,067,127	1,061,589	1,053,529	1,052,572
Collector	83,043	89,578	106,297	126,929	129,310	130,146	131,905	131,603	135,372	137,921	141,964	154,453	162,218	170,265	173,216	175,966	177,140	179,993	180,565
Local	126,791	160,062	191,053	205,907	208,374	214,750	226,097	234,603	234,544	234,404	239,007	243,635	256,901	264,726	266,456	271,926	273,450	266,264	271,528
Fatality rates per 100 million vehicle miles
Rural, total	4.40	3.35	2.97	2.57	2.55	2.49	2.40	2.37	2.18	2.11	2.28	2.32	2.32	2.28	2.23	2.20	2.11	1.95	1.82
Interstate	1.68	1.39	1.35	1.20	1.25	1.26	1.23	1.25	1.19	1.13	1.17	1.20	1.22	1.25	1.11	1.04	0.99	0.84	0.86
Other arterials^a	4.67	3.51	2.99	2.70	2.50	2.50	2.38	2.32	2.12	2.03	2.16	2.35	2.46	2.26	2.22	2.23	2.10	2.04	1.85
Collector^b	5.28	3.97	3.68	3.13	3.10	2.98	2.94	2.87	2.67	2.68	2.90	2.94	2.82	2.85	2.88	2.85	2.74	2.55	2.31
Local	5.91	4.84	4.45	3.76	4.33	3.95	3.73	3.83	3.45	3.15	3.67	3.28	3.09	3.27	3.17	3.14	3.01	2.67	2.66
Urban, total	2.52	1.85	1.47	1.20	1.15	1.10	1.01	0.98	0.94	0.90	0.97	0.93	0.90	0.91	0.93	0.87	0.80	0.73	0.73
Interstate	1.35	0.94	0.81	0.63	0.66	0.63	0.61	0.61	0.61	0.59	0.60	0.55	0.55	0.56	0.55	0.54	0.47	0.43	0.44
Other arterials^a	2.63	2.17	1.68	1.34	1.29	1.21	1.15	1.10	1.05	0.97	1.03	1.01	0.98	0.99	1.01	0.93	0.85	0.77	0.80
Collector^b	2.68	1.89	1.34	1.14	1.00	1.07	0.79	0.78	0.73	0.73	0.80	0.77	0.83	0.80	0.85	0.82	0.70	0.64	0.59
Local	3.46	1.93	1.78	1.62	1.53	1.47	1.29	1.26	1.23	1.28	1.45	1.41	1.29	1.25	1.33	1.30	1.24	1.16	1.09

^a Urban Other arterials for all years and Rural Other arterials for 2009 and 2010 are the sum of other freeways and expressways, other principal arterials, and minor arterials. Rural Other arterials for all other years are the sum of other principal arterials and minor arterials.

^bCollector is the sum of major and minor collectors.

KEY: R = revised.

NOTES

Includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Fatalities data reflect original numbers received by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Thus, the Fatalities data in this table could be slightly different from the revised NHTSA numbers that appear in other tables in this volume.

SOURCES

Fatalities:

1980-95: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table FI-220, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm as of Apr. 20, 2011.

1996-97: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table FI-1, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm as of Apr. 20, 2011.

1998-2010: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table FI-20, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm as of May 10, 2012.

Vehicle miles:

U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table VM-202, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm as of May 10, 2012.

Fatality rates:

Calculated by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.