Table 2-1: Transportation Fatalities by Mode

Friday, April 14, 2017

	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
TOTAL fatalities	U	U	U	U	U	U	47,297	44,391	41,947	42,736	43,514	44,507	44,732	44,412	43,863	43,975	44,276	44,873	45,292	45,121	45,028	45,641	45,061	43,347	39,542	35,978	35,036	34,570	35,696	34,685	(R)34,638	(R)36,973	U
Air, total	1,286	1,290	1,456	1,473	1,382	1,595	866	1,039	988	811	1,057	963	1,093	724	670	683	764	1,166	616	699	637	603	774	540	568	548	477	499	450	430	444	404	U
U.S. air carrier ^a	499	261	146	124	1	526	39	62	33	1	239	168	380	8	1	12	92	531	0	22	14	22	50	1	3	52	2	0	0	9	0	0	U
Commuter carrier ^b	N	N	N	28	37	37	6	99	21	24	25	9	14	46	0	12	5	13	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	1	U
On-demand air taxi ^c	N	N	N	69	105	76	51	78	68	42	63	52	63	39	45	38	71	60	35	42	64	18	16	43	69	17	17	41	12	25	20	27	U
General aviation ^d	787	1,029	1,310	1,252	1,239	956	770	800	866	744	730	734	636	631	624	621	596	562	581	633	559	563	706	496	496	479	458	458	438	391	424	376	U
Highway, total	36,399	47,089	52,627	44,525	51,091	43,825	44,599	41,508	39,250	40,150	40,716	41,817	42,063	42,013	41,501	41,717	41,945	42,196	43,005	42,884	42,836	43,510	42,708	41,259	37,423	33,883	32,999	32,479	33,782	32,894	32,744	35,092	U
Passenger car occupants	N	N	N	25,929	27,449	23,212	24,092	22,385	21,387	21,566	21,997	22,423	22,505	22,199	21,194	20,862	20,699	20,320	20,569	19,725	19,192	18,512	17,925	16,614	14,646	13,135	12,491	12,014	12,361	12,037	11,947	12,628	U
Motorcyclists	790	1,650	2,280	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	4,469	4,518	4,630	4,986	4,692	4,594	4,976	U
Truck occupants ^e, light	N	N	N	4,856	7,486	6,689	8,601	8,391	8,098	8,511	8,904	9,568	9,932	10,249	10,705	11,265	11,526	11,723	12,274	12,546	12,674	13,037	12,761	12,458	10,816	10,312	9,782	9,302	9,418	9,187	9,103	9,813	U
Truck occupants ^e, large	N	N	N	961	1,262	977	705	661	585	605	670	648	621	723	742	759	754	708	689	726	766	804	805	805	682	499	530	640	697	695	656	667	U
Bus occupants	N	N	N	53	46	57	32	31	28	18	18	33	21	18	38	59	22	34	45	41	42	58	27	36	67	26	44	55	39	54	44	49	U
Pedestrians	7,210	7,990	8,950	7,516	8,070	6,808	6,482	5,801	5,549	5,649	5,489	5,584	5,449	5,321	5,228	4,939	4,763	4,901	4,851	4,774	4,675	4,892	4,795	4,699	4,414	4,109	4,302	4,457	4,818	4,779	4,910	5,376	U
Pedalcyclists	490	690	760	1,003	965	890	859	843	723	816	802	833	765	814	760	754	693	732	665	629	727	786	772	701	718	628	623	682	734	749	729	818	U
Other incident ^f	27,909	36,759	40,637	1,018	669	628	584	590	485	536	516	501	609	573	540	596	591	581	642	729	732	845	786	772	768	705	709	699	729	701	761	765	U
Railroad, total ^g	N	N	N	N	1,417	1,036	1,297	1,194	1,170	1,279	1,226	1,146	1,039	1,063	1,008	932	937	971	951	865	891	884	903	851	804	695	735	682	674	700	(R) 765	(R) 749	813
Train accidents	N	N	N	N	29	8	10	19	6	67	12	14	25	17	4	9	10	6	15	4	13	33	6	9	27	4	8	6	9	11	5	(R) 11	8
Highway-rail grade crossing	N	N	N	N	833	582	698	608	579	626	615	579	488	461	431	402	425	421	357	334	371	359	369	339	290	248	261	246	231	232	262	(R) 233	265
Tresspassers	N	N	N	N	457	391	543	524	533	523	529	494	471	533	536	479	463	511	540	498	472	458	511	470	457	416	441	400	410	425	(R) 467	(R) 453	511
Other incident ^h	N	N	N	N	98	55	46	43	52	63	70	59	55	52	37	42	39	33	39	29	35	34	17	33	30	27	25	30	24	32	31	52	29
Transit, total ⁱ	N	N	N	N	N	N	339	300	273	281	320	274	264	275	286	299	295	267	182	202	177	149	162	188	172	226	221	228	264	266	236	254	U
Passenger/Occupant	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	47	51	33	48	20	26	30	48	49	36	67	60	58	30	U
Employee/Worker	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	5	8	8	7	9	9	8	11	6	3	5	10	4	4	U
Other incident	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	130	143	136	94	133	153	134	167	166	189	192	196	174	220	U
Water, total^j	N	N	1,418	1,466	1,360	1,116	865	924	816	800	784	829	709	821	815	734	701	681	890	844	815	829	883	842	854	865	821	904	765	650	674	692	U
Passenger vessel ^k	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	0	48	52	55	52	91	79	65	62	87	96	84	26	14	14	U
Freight vessel ^l	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	48	39	37	33	37	42	34	30	22	18	14	19	18	40	U
Industrial/Other ^m	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	44	50	47	47	45	36	46	37	40	32	16	45	32	12	U
Recreational boating ⁿ	739	1,360	1,418	1,466	1,360	1,116	865	924	816	800	784	829	709	821	815	734	701	681	750	703	676	697	710	685	709	736	672	758	651	560	610	626	U
Pipeline, total	N	N	30	15	19	33	9	14	15	17	22	21	53	10	21	22	38	7	12	12	23	16	19	16	8	13	19	12	10	8	19	10	16
Hazardous liquid pipeline	N	N	4	7	4	5	3	0	5	0	1	3	5	0	2	4	1	0	1	0	5	2	0	4	2	4	1	1	3	1	0	1	3
Gas pipeline	N	N	26	8	15	28	6	14	10	17	21	18	48	10	19	18	37	7	11	12	18	14	19	12	6	9	18	11	7	7	19	9	13
Other counts, redundant with above
Railroad, killed at public crossing with motor vehicle	N	N	N	786	708	480	568	497	466	517	501	455	377	378	325	309	306	315	271	249	256	258	267	227	199	161	136	138	135	141	143	(R) 125	129
Rail, passenger	N	N	N	40	52	79	202	178	175	292	196	211	176	227	196	188	220	242	226	182	201	202	180	216	229	214	215	189	199	195	216	(R) 247	277
Train accidents	U	U	U	U	U	U	0	9	0	55	3	2	14	4	0	1	2	1	7	1	2	14	0	2	25	1	4	0	0	5	3	(R) 10	4
Highway-rail grade crossing^o	U	U	U	U	U	U	74	54	70	77	57	81	53	72	70	70	72	95	69	72	72	70	74	87	70	82	74	58	62	75	60	78	96
Trespassers	U	U	U	U	U	U	117	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	135	138	141	103	117	109	100	116	127	125	131	123	126	108	144	(R) 151	173
Rail, other	U	U	U	U	U	U	11	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	11	8	9	6	10	9	6	11	7	6	6	8	11	7	9	8	4
Rail, freight	N	N	N	1,520	1,365	957	1,095	1,016	995	987	1,030	935	863	837	812	745	717	729	725	683	690	682	723	635	575	481	520	493	476	505	(R) 552	(R) 502	536
Train accidents	U	U	U	U	28	U	10	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	8	5	8	3	11	19	6	7	2	3	4	6	9	6	2	1	4
Highway-rail grade crossing^p	U	U	U	U	821	U	624	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	353	326	288	262	299	289	295	252	220	166	187	188	170	157	203	(R) 155	169
Trespassers	U	U	U	U	426	U	426	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	328	373	399	395	355	349	411	354	330	291	310	277	284	317	(R) 325	302	338
Rail, other	U	U	U	U	90	U	35	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	U	28	25	30	23	25	25	11	22	23	21	19	22	13	25	22	44	25
Transit, non-rail	N	N	N	N	N	N	110	91	99	85	110	88	112	116	113	103	98	100	93	136	95	92	121	122	88	91	100	96	114	122	101	103	U
Transit, rail	N	N	N	N	N	N	229	209	174	196	210	186	152	159	173	196	197	167	89	66	81	54	41	65	84	134	120	132	150	144	135	151	U
Water, Vessel-related^q	N	N	178	243	206	131	85	30	97	105	77	53	55	48	69	58	53	53	29	44	65	46	45	31	31	34	37	27	25	16	14	40	U
Water, Not related to vessel casualties^r	N	N	420	330	281	130	101	56	119	121	131	134	142	120	149	136	134	94	64	76	69	67	70	65	82	72	58	43	60	74	50	26	U

KEY: N = data does not exist; R = revised; U = data are not available.

^aAll services operating under 14 CFR 121 (Scheduled air carriers). Since Mar. 20, 1997, 14 CFR 121 include aircraft with 10 or more seats that 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 data. In 2001, other than the persons aboard the aircraft who were killed, fatalities resulting from the September 11 terrorist acts are excluded. U.S. air carrier figure does not include 12 persons killed aboard a commuter aircraft when it and a US Air airliner collided.

^bAll 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 Mar. 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 data. Commuter air carrier figure does not include 22 persons killed aboard a US Air airliner when it and a commuter aircraft collided.

^cNonscheduled service operating under 14 CFR 135 (On-demand air taxis).

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

^e 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. Large trucks are defined as trucks over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, including single-unit trucks and truck tractors.

^fIncludes occupants of other vehicle types, other nonmotorists, and unknown. For 1960-70, the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration did not break out fatality data to the same level of detail as in later years, so fatalities for those years also include occupants of passenger cars, trucks, and buses.

^gRailroad fatality data for 1975 and before is not comparable with later years due to a change in the reporting system.

^hOther incidents are events other than Train Accidents or Crossing Incidents that cause physical harm to persons.

ⁱIncludes transit employee, contract worker, passenger, revenue facility occupant, and other fatalities for all modes reported in the National Transit Database.

^jPassenger, freight, and industrial/other include only closed cases where vessels were involved in a marine casualty as of April 6, 2015. Open cases by fiscal year not included above: CY 2002 = 0, CY 2003 = 5, CY 2004 = 5, CY 2005 = 8, CY 2006 = 4, CY 2007 = 7, CY 2008 = 19, CY 2009 = 38, CY 2010 = 36, CY 2011 = 120, CY 2012 = 644, CY 2013 = 727, and CY 2014 = 742.

^kPassenger includes passenger ships, research ships, and schools ships and include only closed cases where vessels were involved in a marine casualty as of April 6, 2015. Open cases by fiscal year not included above: CY 2002 = 0, CY 2003 = 5, CY 2004 = 5, CY 2005 = 8, CY 2006 = 4, CY 2007 = 7, CY 2008 = 19, CY 2009 = 38, CY 2010 = 36, CY 2011 = 120, CY 2012 = 644, CY 2013 = 727, and CY 2014 = 742.

^l Freight includes barges, bulk carriers, general dry cargo ships, refrigerated cargo ships, roll-on/roll-off ships, tank ships, and towing ships and include only closed cases where vessels were involved in a marine casualty as of April 6, 2015. Open cases by fiscal year not included above: CY 2002 = 0, CY 2003 = 5, CY 2004 = 5, CY 2005 = 8, CY 2006 = 4, CY 2007 = 7, CY 2008 = 19, CY 2009 = 38, CY 2010 = 36, CY 2011 = 120, CY 2012 = 644, CY 2013 = 727, and CY 2014 = 742.

^m Industrial/other includes fishing vessels, miscellaneous vessels, and offshore include only closed cases where vessels were involved in a marine casualty as of April 6, 2015. Open cases by fiscal year not included above: CY 2002 = 0, CY 2003 = 5, CY 2004 = 5, CY 2005 = 8, CY 2006 = 4, CY 2007 = 7, CY 2008 = 19, CY 2009 = 38, CY 2010 = 36, CY 2011 = 120, CY 2012 = 644, CY 2013 = 727, and CY 2014 = 742.

ⁿRecreational includes airboats, canoes, kayaks, motorboats, pontoon, rowboats, and sailboats^.Data are based on information provided by the States, the District of Columbia and the five U.S. Territories to the Coast Guard Boating Accident Report Database (BARD) system, which is subject to some under- or delayed reporting.

^oIncludes passenger train collisions with vehicles and people at all public and private highway-rail grade crossings.

^pHighway-rail grade crossing fatalities include freight train collisions with vehicles and people at all public and private highway-rail grade crossings.

^qVessel-related casualties include those involving damage to vessels such as collisions or groundings. Fatalities not related to vessel casualties include deaths from falling overboard or from accidents involving onboard equipment.

^r1992-97 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 prior years come from other sources and may not be directly comparable.

NOTES

To reduce double counting, the following adjustments are made to Total Fatalities: For Railroad, fatalities involving motor vehicles at public highway-rail grade crossings are excluded because such fatalities are assumed to be included in Highway fatalities. For Transit, non-rail modes, including aerial tramway, motor bus, bus rapid transit, commuter bus, demand response, demand taxi, ferryboat, jitney, publico, trolleybus, and vanpool fatalities are excluded because they are counted as Water and Highway fatalities. Other counts, redundant with above help eliminate double counting in the Total Fatalities.

Highway fatalities data prior to 1975 have been adjusted to reflect the Fatality Analysis Reporting System's definition of a fatal crash as one that involves a motor vehicle on a traffic way that results in the death of a vehicle occupant or a nonmotorist within 30 days of the crash.

Water injury data for 2001 and before is not comparable with later year due to a change in the reporting system.

Current version of this table is not comparable with the versions before 2014 because of the categories changing for some modes.

Pipeline incudes serious incidents only.

SOURCES

Air:

U.S. Air Carrier:

1960: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1967 (Washington, DC: December 1968).

1965-70: Ibid., Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1975, NTSB/ARC-77/1 (Washington, DC: January 1977).

1975: Ibid., Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1983, NTSB/ARC-87/01 (Washington, DC: February 1987), table 18.

1980: Ibid., Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1981, NTSB/ARC-85/01 (Washington, DC: February 1985), tables 2 and 16.

1985-2015: Ibid., Aviation Accident Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table 5, available at http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/data/pages/aviation_stats.aspx as of Oct. 2016.

Commuter:

1975-80: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1980, NTSB/ARC-83/01 (Washington, DC: January 1983), tables 26 and 40.

1985-2015: Ibid., Aviation Accident Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table 8, available at http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/data/pages/aviation_stats.aspx as of Oct. 2016.

On-demand air taxi:

1975-80: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1981, NTSB/ARC-85/01 (Washington, DC: February 1985), table 61.

1985-2015: Ibid., Aviation Accident Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table 9, available at http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/data/pages/aviation_stats.aspx as of Oct. 2016.

General aviation:

1960-70: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. General Aviation, Calendar Year 1970, NTSB/ARG-74/1 (Washington, DC: April 1974), table 117.

1975-80: Ibid., Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: General Aviation, Calendar Year 1985, NTSB/ARG-87/03 (Washington, DC: October 1987), table 21.

1985-2015: Ibid., Aviation Accident Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table 10, available at http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/data/pages/aviation_stats.aspx as of Oct. 2016.

Highway:

1960-65: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from data supplied by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, and individual state accident reports (adjusted to 30-day deaths).

1970-2014: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Facts (Annual Editions), Table 4, available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/cats/index.aspx as of May 2016.

2015: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2015 Motor Vehicle Crashes: Overview, Table 3 as of Aug. 2016.

Rail:

Highway-rail grade crossing:

1975-13: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Safety Analysis, table 5.11, Hwy/Rail Incidents Summary Tables, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ as of July 2015.

2014-2016: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Safety Analysis, table 5.14, Hwy Rail Accident Incident Summary By Railroad, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ as of Mar. 2017.

Railroad:

1960-65: National Safety Council, Accident Facts, 1974 (Washington, DC: 1974).

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

1975-2016: Ibid., U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Safety Analysis, table 1.12, 1.13, 2.07, and 5.14 , available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ as of March 2017.

Transit:

1990-01: U.S. Department of Transportation, Volpe Center, Transit Safety and Security Statistics, available at http://transit-safety.volpe.dot.gov/data/samis.aspx as of Mar. 2015.

2002-2015: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, personal communication, Jun. 20, 2016.

Water:

Passenger, Freight, Industrial/Other:

2002-2015: U.S Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Investigations and Analysis, Compliance Analysis Division, personal communication, Nov. 20, 2012 and Nov. 12, 2013, Aug. 31, 2015 and May 2016

Recreational:

1960-02: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Boating Safety, Boating Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table 31, available at http://www.uscgboating.org as of Jun. 2014.

2003-2015: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Recreational Boating Statistics (annual issues), available at www.uscgboating.org as of May 2016.

Pipeline:

Hazardous liquid and gas pipeline:

1970-85: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, Accident and Incident Summary Statistics by Year, available at http://ops.dot.gov as of Nov. 18, 2003.

1990-2016: 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://phmsa.dot.gov/pipeline as of Mar. 2017.

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Table 2-1: Transportation Fatalities by Mode