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INJURED MOTOR VEHICLE OCCUPANTS, PEDESTRIANS, AND BICYCLISTS
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Injured Motor Vehicle Occupants, Pedestrians, and Bicyclists (annual data)
The vast majority of transportation injuries involve motor vehicles.
| Highway total |
3,190,000 |
3,033,000 |
| Highway total percent change from previous year |
-0.53 |
-4.92 |
| Passenger car occupants |
2,052,000 |
1,927,000 |
| Passenger car occupants percent change from previous year |
-3.27 |
-6.09 |
| Light-truck occupants |
887,000 |
861,000 |
| Light-truck occupants percent change from previous year |
5.43 |
-2.93 |
| Pedestrians and bicyclists |
129,000 |
123,000 |
| Pedestrians and bicyclists percent change from previous year |
-5.15 |
-4.65 |
| Motorcyclists |
58,000 |
60,000 |
| Motorcyclists percent change from previous year |
16.00 |
3.45 |
| Large-truck occupants |
31,000 |
29,000 |
| Large-truck occupants percent change from previous year |
-9.09 |
-6.45 |
| Other** |
33,000 |
33,000 |
| Other** percent change from previous year |
3.13 |
0 |
** Other highway includes buses, construction equipment, farm equipment, etc, and other unknown vehicle types.
NOTES: National estimates of highway injuries are sampled and subject to sampling
errors. Highway table includes categories not displayed in graph.
Light trucks - trucks of 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating or less,
including pickups, vans, truck-based station wagons, and utility vehicles.
See U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics,
pp. 429-435, National Transportation Statistics 2000 for detailed discussion
of modal injury data.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, 2000 Traffic Safety Facts, available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/ncsa/tsf2000/2000ovrfacts.pdf.
2001 numbers from NHTSA, 2001 Annual Assessment, available at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/Rpts/2002/Assess01.pdf
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