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HAZARDOUS MATERIALS INCIDENTS INVOLVING CRASHES OR TRAIN DERAILMENTS
Hazardous Materials Incidents Involving Vehicular Accidents or Derailments
(monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
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All 2002 data are preliminary
Motor vehicle accidents or train derailments account for only a small
portion of total number of hazardous materials incidents. However, their
consequences are often the most severe.
| Total incidents involving vehicular accidents |
34 |
18 |
| Total incidents involving vehicular accidents percent change from same month previous year |
47.83 |
-47.06 |
* Preliminary estimate.
NOTES: The current value is compared to the value from the same period
in the previous year to account for seasonality.
Reporting requirements were extended to intrastate motor carriers on
Oct. 1, 1998, which may have affected data reported after this date.
Accident/derailment is a crash involving a motor vehicle or a derailment
of a train.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs
Administration, Office of Hazardous Materials, Planning and Analysis,
Hazardous Materials Information System data obtained through personal
communication.
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