BTS | Table 4 - Occupant and Nonmotorist Fatalities in Crashes by Number of Vehicles and Alcohol Involvement: 1999

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Table 4
Occupant and Nonmotorist Fatalities in Crashes by Number of Vehicles and Alcohol Involvement: 1999

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	Fatalities	Alcohol involvement	Percent
Occupants	35,806	13,145	36.7
Single-vehicle crashes	17,052	8,163	47.9
Two-vehicle crashes	15,690	4,204	26.8
More than two-vehicle crashes	3,064	778	25.4
Pedestrians	4,906	2,325	47.3
Single-vehicle crashes	4,488	2,090	46.6
Multiple-vehicle crashes	418	235	56.2
Pedalcyclists	750	286	38.1
Single-vehicle crashes	714	267	37.4
Multiple-vehicle crashes	36	19	55.6
Other/unknown	149	31	20.8
Total	41,611	15,786^a	37.9

^a The total shows one fewer case of alcohol involvement thaen th sum of the subtotals. This is due to adjustment for rounding in the method used to estimate alcohol involvement.

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database, available at http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/www/query.html, as of December 2000.

Table 4 Occupant and Nonmotorist Fatalities in Crashes by Number of Vehicles and Alcohol Involvement: 1999

Table 4
Occupant and Nonmotorist Fatalities in Crashes by Number of Vehicles and Alcohol Involvement: 1999