Table 2-2: Injured Persons by Transportation Mode

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	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001n	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	(R) 2,007	2008
Air,a total	N	N	(R) 822	(R) 850	(R) 757	(R) 589	(R) 485	(R) 515	(R) 456	(R) 430	(R) 484	(R) 452	(R) 467	(R) 417	(R) 369	(R) 406	(R) 357	(R) 368	(R) 337	(R) 367	(R) 303	(R) 304	(R) 290	291	289
U.S. air carrierb	N	N	107	81	19	30	29	26	22	19	31	25	77	43	30	67	29	19	24	31	20	14	9	16	16
Commuter carrierc	N	N	N	N	14	14	11	31	7	2	6	17	2	1	2	2	7	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	2
On-demand air taxid	N	N	N	N	43	44	36	26	19	24	32	14	22	23	10	15	12	24	16	12	17	23	16	20	13
General aviatione	N	N	715	769	681	501	409	432	408	385	415	396	366	350	327	322	309	321	297	323	266	267	264	255	258
Highway, total	N	N	N	N	N	N	3,230,666	3,096,870	3,069,603	3,149,164	3,265,928	3,465,279	3,483,319	3,347,614	3,192,035	3,236,238	3,188,750	3,032,672	2,925,758	2,888,601	2,788,378	2,699,000	2,575,000	2,491,000	2,346,000
Passenger car occupants	N	N	N	N	N	N	2,376,439	2,234,594	2,231,703	2,264,809	2,363,595	2,469,358	2,458,080	2,340,612	2,201,375	2,137,503	2,051,609	1,926,625	1,804,788	1,756,495	1,642,549	(R) 1,573,396	(R) 1,474,536	1,379,181	1,304,006
Motorcyclists	N	N	N	N	N	N	84,285	80,435	65,099	59,436	57,405	57,480	55,281	52,574	48,974	49,986	57,723	60,236	64,713	67,103	76,379	(R) 87,335	(R) 88,652	102,994	95,986
Truck occupantsf, light	N	N	N	N	N	N	505,144	562,601	544,657	600,874	631,411	722,496	761,478	754,820	762,506	846,865	886,566	860,527	879,338	889,048	900,171	(R) 872,137	(R) 856,896	841,451	768,410
Truck occupantsf, large	N	N	N	N	N	N	41,822	28,031	33,778	32,102	30,208	30,344	32,760	30,913	28,767	32,892	30,832	29,424	26,242	26,893	27,287	(R) 27,284	(R) 23,815	23,314	22,947
Bus occupants	N	N	N	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	(R) 11,133	(R) 9,839	12,141	15,149
Pedestrians	N	N	N	N	N	N	104,805	88,446	89,184	94,001	91,987	85,837	81,797	77,011	68,955	85,235	77,625	77,619	70,664	69,949	67,985	(R) 64,446	(R) 60,924	70,286	68,832
Pedalcyclists	N	N	N	N	N	N	74,903	67,088	62,691	67,916	62,489	66,572	58,158	57,802	53,379	51,290	51,160	45,277	48,011	46,378	41,086	(R) 45,439	(R) 44,012	43,481	52,395
Otherg	N	N	N	N	N	N	10,578	14,716	22,348	12,969	13,065	13,977	15,473	16,995	12,519	10,509	15,466	17,536	13,182	14,561	16,511	(R) 17,806	(R) 17,989	17,685	18,011
Railroad, totalh	19,480	25,655	21,206	53,998	62,246	34,304	25,143	23,468	21,383	19,121	16,812	14,440	12,558	11,767	11,459	11,700	11,643	10,985	11,103	(R) 9,264	(R) 9,192	(R) 9,511	(R) 8,710	9,603	8,789
Highway-rail grade crossingi	3,367	3,725	3,272	3,860	3,550	2,687	2,407	2,094	1,975	1,837	1,961	1,894	1,610	1,540	1,303	1,396	1,219	1,157	999	(R) 1,035	(R) 1,095	(R) 1,051	(R) 1,070	1,054	949
Railroad	16,113	21,930	17,934	50,138	58,696	31,617	22,736	21,374	19,408	17,284	14,851	12,546	10,948	10,227	10,156	10,304	10,424	9,828	10,104	(R) 8,229	(R) 8,097	(R) 8,460	(R) 7,640	8,549	7,840
Transit, totalj	N	N	N	N	N	N	54,556	52,125	55,089	52,668	58,193	57,196	55,288	56,132	55,990	55,325	56,697	53,945	19,260	18,235	18,982	18,131	18,327	20,944	23,105
Highway-rail grade crossingk	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	195	184	126	58	159	123	74	108	117	153	194	172	224	271
Transit	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	57,001	55,104	56,006	55,932	55,166	56,574	53,871	19,152	18,118	18,829	17,937	18,155	20,720	22,834
Waterborne, totall	N	N	U	U	U	U	U	U	5,356	5,128	6,144	6,165	6,064	5,737	5,321	4,992	5,112	5,008	4,856	4,666	4,066	4,095	5,245	4,422	3,947
Vessel-relatedm	N	N	105	97	180	172	175	110	170	171	182	154	254	120	130	152	150	210	192	227	198	140	177	190	152
Not related to vessel casualtiesm	N	N	U	U	U	U	U	U	1,503	1,398	1,878	1,870	1,368	1,062	579	525	607	524	602	551	505	504	594	559	464
Recreational boating	929	927	780	2,136	2,650	2,757	3,822	3,967	3,683	3,559	4,084	4,141	4,442	4,555	4,612	4,315	4,355	4,274	4,062	3,888	3,363	3,451	4,474	3,673	3,331
Pipeline, total	N	N	254	231	192	126	76	98	118	111	1,971	64	127	77	81	108	81	61	49	71	60	48	(R) 36	53	65
Hazardous liquid pipeline	N	N	21	17	15	18	7	9	38	10	1,858	11	13	5	6	20	4	10	0	5	16	2	2	10	2
Gas pipeline	N	N	233	214	177	108	69	89	80	101	113	53	114	72	75	88	77	51	49	66	44	46	(R) 34	43	63

KEY: N = data do not exist; R = revised; U = data are unavailable.

^a Injuries classified as serious. See definitions of injuries in the glossary.

^b All scheduled and nonscheduled service operating under 14 CFR 121. Since Mar. 20, 1997, 14 CFR 121 includes only aircraft with 10 or more seats formerly operated under 14 CFR 135. This change makes it difficult to compare pre-1997 data for 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135 with more recent years' data.

^c All scheduled service operating under 14 CFR 135 (commuter air carriers). Before Mar. 20, 1997, 14 CFR 135 applied to aircraft with 30 or fewer seats. Since March 20, 1997, 14 CFR 135 includes only aircraft with fewer than 10 seats. This change makes it difficult to compare pre-1997 data for 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135 with more recent years' data.

^d Nonscheduled service operating under 14 CFR 135 (on-demand air taxis).

^e All operations other than those operating under 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135.

^f Large trucks are defined as trucks over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, including single-unit trucks and truck tractors. Light trucks are defined as trucks of 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating or less, including pickups, vans, truck-based station wagons, and utility vehicles.

^g Includes occupants of other unknown vehicle types and other nonmotorists.

^h Includes Amtrak. Figures include those injuries resulting from train accidents, train incidents, and nontrain incidents. Injury figures also include occupational illness. Railroad injury data for 1970 and before are not comparable with post-1970 data due to a change in the reporting system.

ⁱ Injuries occurring at highway-rail crossings resulting from freight and passenger rail operations including commuter rail. Highway-rail grade crossing injuries, except train occupants, are also counted under highway.

^j Includes motor bus, commuter rail, heavy rail, light rail, demand response, van pool, and automated guideway. Transit injuries include those resulting from all reportable incidents, not just from accidents. Directly Operated (DO) modes only. The drop in the number of injuries in 2002 is due largely to a change in definitions by the Federal Transit Administration. Only injuries requiring immediate medical treatment away from the scene now qualify as reportable. Previously, any injury was reportable.

^k Injuries occurring at highway-rail crossings resulting from operations of public transit rail modes including commuter rail. Data for injuries at light rail crossings are: 1995 (179); 1996 (171); 1997 (92); 1998 (42); 1999 (148); 2000 (111); 2001 (54); 2002 (76); 2003 (56); 2004 (62); 2005 (138); 2006 (44); 2007 (139); 2008 (86).

^l Vessel-related injuries include those involving damage to vessels, such as collisions or groundings. Injuries not related to vessel casualties include those from falls overboard or from accidents involving onboard equipment.

^m 1992-97 data come from the Marine Safety Management Information System. Between 1998 and 2001 the U.S. Coast Guard phased in a new computer system to track safety data, the Marine Information for Safety and Law Enforcement System. During that period data come from combining entries in the Marine Safety Management Information System with entries in the Marine Information for Safety and Law Enforcement System. Data for 2002, 2003, and 2004 come from the Marine Information for Safety and Law Enforcement System. Data for prior years come from other sources and may not be directly comparable.

ⁿ Other than the persons aboard the aircraft who were killed, fatalities resulting from the September 11 terrorist acts are excluded.

NOTES

Totals may not sum from the components due to rounding.

Highway numbers are not actual counts, but estimates of the actual counts. The estimates are calculated from data obtained from a nationally representative sample of crashes collected through NHTSA's General Estimates System (GES). Estimates are rounded to the nearest 1,000. Estimates less than 500 indicate that the sample size was too small to produce a meaningful estimate and should be rounded to 0.

SOURCES

Air:

1970-94: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: General Aviation (Washington, DC: Annual issues).

1995-2008: Ibid., Analysis and Data Division, personal communication, Nov. 9, 2009.

Highway:

1990-99: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 1999, DOT HS 809 100 (Washington, DC: December 2000), table 4.

2000-04: Ibid., General Estimates System Database and personal communication, Dec. 9, 2003, Oct. 12, 2004, Apr. 20, 2006.

2005-08: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table 4.

Rail:

Highway-rail grade crossings:

1960-70: National Safety Council, Accident Facts, 1974 (Washington, DC: 1974).

1975: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Policy and Program Development, personal communication.

1980-91: Ibid., Rail-Highway Crossing Accident/Incident and Inventory Bulletin (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table S.

1991-99: Ibid., Interim Railroad Safety Statistics Annual Report 2002 (Washington, DC: August 2003), table 1-1.

2000-08: Ibid., available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ as of Apr. 7, 2010.

Railroad:

1960-70: National Safety Council, Accident Facts, 1974 (Washington, DC: 1974).

1970-91: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Highway-Rail Crossing Accident/Incident and Inventory Bulletin (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table 7.

1991-99: Ibid., Interim Railroad Safety Statistics Annual Report 2002 (Washington, DC: August 2003), table 1-1.

2000-08: Ibid., available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ as of Apr. 7, 2010.

Transit:

Highway-rail grade crossings:

U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, Office of Program Management, personal communication as of Apr. 7, 2010.

Transit:

1990-92: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, Safety Management Information Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues).

1993-2005: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, Transit Safety and Security Statistics and Analysis Annual Report (Washington, DC: Annual issues), available at http://transit-safety.volpe.dot.gov/data/SAMIS.asp as of Sep. 4, 2007.

2006-08: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Volpe Center, Transit Safety and Security Statistics and Analysis Program, personal communication, Apr. 7, 2010.

Water:

Vessel- and nonvessel-related:

1970-91: U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Investigations and Analysis, Compliance Analysis Division, (G-MOA-2), personal communication, Apr. 13, 1999.

1992-2008: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Data Administration Division (G-MRI-1), personal communication, Apr. 7, 2010.

Recreational boating:

U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Boating Safety, Boating Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), available at available at http://www.uscgboating.org as of Apr. 7, 2010.

Hazardous liquid and gas pipeline:

1970-2008: U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, Accident and Incident Summary Statistics by Year, available at http://ops.dot.gov as of Apr. 7, 2010.