Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Data
Table 2-24: Bus Occupant Safety Data
| 1975 | 1980 | 1985 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fatalities | 53 | 46 | 57 | 32 | 31 | 28 | 18 | 18 | 33 | 21 | 18 | 38 | 59 | 22 | 34 |
| Injured personsE | N | N | N | 32,691 | 20,959 | 20,144 | 17,056 | 15,767 | 19,214 | 20,291 | 16,887 | 15,559 | 21,958 | 17,769 | 15,427 |
| CrashesE | N | N | N | 60,412 | 56,285 | 49,705 | 51,353 | 55,818 | 58,847 | 57,185 | 53,376 | 53,385 | 62,591 | 55,594 | 54,264 |
| Vehicle-miles (millions) | 6,055 | 6,059 | 4,478 | 5,726 | 5,750 | 5,778 | 6,125 | 6,409 | 6,420 | 6,563 | 6,842 | 7,007 | 7,662 | R7,590 | 6,986 |
| Rates per 100 million vehicle-milesb | |||||||||||||||
| Fatalities | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Injured personsE | N | N | N | 571 | 365 | 349 | 278 | 246 | 299 | 309 | 247 | 222 | 287 | 234 | 221 |
| CrashesE | N | N | N | 1,055 | 979 | 860 | 838 | 871 | 917 | 871 | 780 | 762 | 817 | R732 | 777 |
KEY: E = estimated; N = data do not exist; R = revised.
a Bus includes school, transit, and intercity buses.
b The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) rounds its injury and crash data to the nearest thousand, but injury and crash rates are calculated using the unrounded data. NHTSA also calculates fatality, injury, and crash rates using vehicle-miles expressed to a higher level of precision than shown here. Thus, injury and crash rates shown in this table may differ slightly from the rates that would be calculated from the data in this table. USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics has rounded vehicle-miles to the nearest 100 million in this table.
NOTE
The injury and crash data in this table are from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) General Estimates System (GES). The data from GES, which began operation in 1988, are obtained from a nationally representative probability sample selected from all police-reported crashes. The GES sample includes only crashes where a police accident report was completed and the crash resulted in property damage, injury, or death. The resulting figures do not take into account crashes that were not reported to the police or that did not result in property damage. The 1993 National Transportation Statistics (NTS) Historical Compendium and earlier editions illustrated crashes and injury figures estimated by the National Safety Council, which used a different set of methods to arrive at its figures. Thus, the injury and crash figures in this edition of NTS may not be comparable with those found in the Compendium and in earlier editions.
SOURCES
Fatalities and injuries:
1975-2001: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2001, DOT HS 809 484 (Washington, DC: December 2002), tables 4, 51, and personal communication, Sept. 10, 2002.
Crashes:
1990-2001: Ibid., General Estimates System Database, personal communication, Sept 10, 2002.
Vehicle-miles:
1975-94: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table VM-201A.
1995-2001: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table VM-1.