Table 2-22: Motorcycle Rider Safety Data

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	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	(R) 2000	(R) 2001	(R) 2002	(R) 2003	(R) 2004	(R) 2005	(R) 2006	(R) 2007	(R) 2008	(P) 2009
Fatalities	3,189	5,144	4,564	3,244	2,806	2,395	2,449	2,320	2,227	2,161	2,116	2,294	2,483	2,897	3,197	3,270	3,714	4,028	4,576	4,837	5,174	5,312	4,462
Injured persons	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	87,000	88,000	103,000	96,000	90,000
Motorcycles involved in crashes	N	N	N	103,114	105,030	72,177	74,565	68,752	66,354	66,224	61,451	54,477	57,322	68,783	73,342	76,004	79,131	85,538	103,000	104,000	123,000	114,000	106,000
Vehicle-miles (millions)	5,629	10,214	9,086	9,557	9,178	9,557	9,906	10,240	9,797	9,920	10,081	10,283	10,584	12,175	11,120	11,171	11,384	14,975	13,773	19,157	21,396	20,811	20,800
Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles
Fatalities	56.7	50.4	50.2	33.9	30.6	25.1	24.7	22.7	22.7	21.8	21.0	22.3	23.5	23.8	28.7	29.3	32.6	26.9	33.2	25.2	24.2	25.5	21.5
Injured persons	N	N	N	881.9	876.4	681.2	600.0	560.6	586.7	557.3	521.5	476.3	472.3	474.1	541.7	579.3	589.5	510.0	631.7	459.4	481.4	461.3	432.7
Motorcycles involved in crashes	N	N	N	1078.9	1144.4	755.2	752.7	671.4	677.3	667.6	609.6	529.8	541.6	564.9	659.5	680.4	695.1	571.2	747.8	542.9	574.9	547.8	509.6

KEY: N = data do not exist; P = preliminary; R = revised.

NOTES

The injury and crash data in this table are from NHTSA's General Estimates System (GES). The data from the 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.

Fatalities, Injured persons and Motorcycles involved in crashes data for 2009 are preliminary.

Since Vehicle-miles data for 2000 and later years are estimated using enhanced methodology, data for these years are not comparable with prior years or with numbers published in the previous NTS reports.

SOURCES

Fatalities and injuries :

1975-2004: 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 10, available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/ as of March 2009.

2005-09: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts, Early Edition, (Washington, DC: 2010), table 10, available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/cats/index.aspx as of Jan. 31, 2011.

Motorcycles involved in crashes:

1975-2004: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Database and General Estimates System Database, personal communication, May 25, 2006.

2005-08: 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/Cats/index.aspx as of Jan. 31, 2011.

2009: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2009, Early Edition, (Washington, DC: 2010), table 36, available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Cats/index.aspx as of Jan. 31, 2011.

Vehicle-miles:

1970-2009: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table VM-1, and similar tables in earlier editions, available at www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/hss/hsspubs.cfm as of Apr. 12, 2011.