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Highway Fatalities

Friday, August 28, 2015

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Quarterly data

Highway Fatalities

Highway Fatalities 2013 Q4 2014 Q4
Highway-Related Fatalities 8,454 8,875
Percent change from same quarter previous year - 0.3% + 5.0%

NOTES: Highway-related fatalities includes the number of people who died in motor vehicle crashes within 30 days of the incident, including vehicles at rail crossings and transit vehicles operating over the road. It includes passenger cars, motorcycles, light trucks, large trucks, buses, pedestrians, pedalcyclists, and other/unknown.

Data for the most recent year that do not have an annual FARS dataset available (2013 and 2014) are estimated by NHTSA and not final.

SOURCES: 2004-2012 — U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, available at http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS, as of April 2015. 2013 and 2014 — U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "Early Estimates of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities in 2014," as of August 2015.