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 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fatalities | 53 | 46 | 57 | 32 | 31 | 28 | 18 | 18 | 33 | 21 | 18 | 38 | 59 | 22 | 34 | 45 | 41 | 42 | 58 | 27 | 37 |
| Injured persons | 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 | 18,819 | 18,174 | 16,410 | 11,000 | 10,000 | 12,000 |
| Vehicles involved in crashes | 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 | 57,958 | 57,674 | 52,144 | 51,000 | 52,000 | 57,000 |
| 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 | 7,590 | 7,077 | 6,845 | 6,783 | 6,801 | (R) 6,980 | 6,783 | 6,976 |
| Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | (R) 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| Injured persons | N | N | N | 571 | 365 | 349 | 278 | 246 | 299 | 309 | 247 | 222 | 287 | 234 | 218 | 275 | 268 | 241 | (R) 158 | 147 | 172 |
| Vehicles involved in crashes | N | N | N | 1,055 | 979 | 860 | 838 | 871 | 917 | 871 | 780 | 762 | 817 | 732 | 767 | 847 | 850 | 767 | (R) 731 | 767 | 817 |
KEY: N = data do not exist; R = revised.
a Bus includes school, transit, and intercity buses.
NOTES
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.
SOURCES
Fatalities, and injuries:
1975-2007: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts, Final Edition (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table 4, available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/ as of March 2009.
Vehicle-miles:
1975-94: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table VM-201A, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/hss/index.cfm as March 2009.
1995-2007: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table VM-1, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/hss/index.cfm as March 2009.
Vehicles involved in crashes:
1990-2004: Ibid., General Estimates System Database, personal communication, May 25, 2006.
2005-2007: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts, Final Edition (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table 35, available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/ as of March 2009.