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

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

	1980	1985	1990	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Fatalities
Rural, total	29,545	24,492	25,786	23,978	24,510	24,811	24,751	25,185	23,640
Interstate	2,263	2,141	2,707	2,675	2,905	3,040	3,105	3,244	3,199
Other arterials^a	12,268	9,940	9,893	9,947	9,458	9,678	9,594	9,573	8,913
Collector^b	10,004	8,209	8,852	7,401	7,481	7,643	7,593	7,595	7,147
Local	5,010	4,202	4,334	3,955	4,666	4,450	4,459	4,773	4,381
Urban, total	21,546	19,333	18,813	17,839	17,555	16,758	16,143	15,970	15,695
Interstate	2,184	2,025	2,252	2,154	2,323	2,292	2,283	2,353	2,388
Other arterials^a	12,752	12,521	11,742	10,916	10,756	10,239	9,902	9,628	9,442
Collector	2,226	1,696	1,427	1,441	1,290	1,163	1,037	1,031	987
Local	4,384	3,091	3,392	3,328	3,186	3,064	2,921	2,958	2,878
Vehicle-miles of travel (VMT) (millions)
Rural, total	672,030	730,728	868,878	933,289	960,194	1,001,350	1,033,457	1,062,623	1,084,961
Interstate	135,084	154,357	200,173	223,382	232,565	240,255	251,520	260,166	268,960
Other arterials^a	262,774	282,803	330,866	368,595	378,847	392,058	403,484	413,320	420,569
Collector^b	189,468	206,669	240,460	236,148	241,030	254,364	257,858	264,453	267,521
Local	84,704	86,899	97,379	105,164	107,752	114,673	120,595	124,684	127,911
Urban, total	855,265	1,044,098	1,275,484	1,489,534	1,523,886	1,560,345	1,598,065	1,626,618	1,664,842
Interstate	161,242	216,188	278,901	341,528	351,579	361,401	374,622	382,259	393,580
Other arterials^a	484,189	578,270	699,233	815,170	834,623	846,659	862,994	878,153	900,161
Collector	83,043	89,578	106,297	126,929	129,310	130,143	131,919	131,603	135,371
Local	126,791	160,062	191,053	205,907	208,374	222,142	228,530	234,603	235,730
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
Interstate	1.68	1.39	1.35	1.20	1.25	1.26	1.23	1.25	1.19
Other arterials^a	4.67	3.51	2.99	2.70	2.50	2.50	2.38	2.32	2.12
Collector^b	5.28	3.97	3.68	3.13	3.10	2.98	2.94	2.87	2.67
Local	5.91	4.84	4.45	3.76	4.33	3.95	3.73	3.83	3.43
Urban, total	2.52	1.85	1.47	1.20	1.15	1.10	1.01	0.98	0.94
Interstate	1.35	0.94	0.81	0.63	0.66	0.63	0.61	0.61	0.61
Other arterials^a	2.63	2.17	1.68	1.34	1.29	1.21	1.15	1.10	1.05
Collector	2.68	1.89	1.34	1.14	1.00	1.07	0.79	0.78	0.73
Local	3.46	1.93	1.78	1.62	1.53	1.47	1.29	1.26	1.22

KEY: R = revised.

^a For urban: the sum of other freeways and expressways, other principal arterials, and minor arterials.

For rural: the sum of other principal arterials and minor arterials.

^b Collector is the sum of major and minor collectors (rural only).

NOTES

Includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Fatality figures reflect original figures received by FHWA from NHTSA, and, when totaled, differ slightly from the revised NHTSA figures 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, Internet site http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/ohimstat.htm as of Oct. 25, 2000.

1996-97: Ibid., Highway Statistics, Internet site http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/ohimstat.htm as of January 2003, table FI 1.

1998-2001: Ibid., Highway Statistics, Internet site http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/hs01/fi20.htm as of January 2003, table FI-20.

Vehicle miles:

1980-95: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995, FHWA-PL-97-009 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table VM-202.

1996-2001: Ibid., Highway Statistics, Internet site http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/ohimstat.htm as of January 2003, table VM-2.

Fatality rates:

Calculated by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

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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