Table 2-17: Motor Vehicle Safety Data

Friday, April 14, 2017

	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Fatalities	36,399	47,089	52,627	44,525	51,091	43,825	44,599	41,508	39,250	40,150	40,716	41,817	42,065	42,013	41,501	41,717	41,945
Injured persons	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
Crashes	N	N	N	N	N	N	6,471,202	6,117,359	6,000,310	6,105,915	6,495,988	6,699,415	6,769,583	6,624,149	6,334,573	6,279,036	6,393,624
Vehicle-miles (millions)	718,763	887,811	1,109,724	1,327,664	1,527,295	1,774,826	2,144,362	2,172,050	2,247,151	2,296,378	2,357,588	2,422,823	2,484,080	2,552,233	2,628,148	2,690,241	2,746,925
Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles
Fatalities	5.06	5.30	4.74	3.35	3.35	2.47	2.08	1.91	1.75	1.75	1.73	1.73	1.69	1.65	1.58	1.55	1.53
Injured persons	N	N	N	N	N	N	151	143	137	137	139	143	140	131	121	120	116
Crashes	N	N	N	N	N	N	302	282	267	266	276	277	273	260	241	233	233

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	(R) 2014	(P) 2015
Fatalities	42,196	43,005	42,884	42,836	43,510	42,708	41,259	37,423	33,883	32,999	32,479	33,782	(R) 32,893	32,744	35,092
Injured persons	3,032,672	2,925,758	2,888,601	2,788,378	2,698,976	2,574,664	2,490,533	2,345,737	2,217,275	2,239,074	2,216,962	2,362,175	2,312,845	2,337,707	2,443,000
Crashes	6,322,963	6,315,708	6,327,955	6,181,027	6,159,350	5,973,213	6,024,008	5,810,846	5,505,180	5,419,445	5,337,829	5,615,045	5,686,892	6,064,217	6,296,000
Vehicle-miles (millions)	2,795,610	2,855,508	2,890,221	2,964,788	2,989,430	3,014,371	3,031,124	2,976,528	2,956,764	2,967,266	2,950,402	2,969,433	(R)2,988,280	3,025,656	3,095,373
Rates per 100 million vehicle-miles
Fatalities	1.51	1.51	1.48	1.44	1.46	1.42	1.36	1.26	1.15	1.11	1.10	1.14	(R) 1.10	1.08	1.13
Injured persons	108	102	100	94	90	85	82	79	75	75	75	80	77	77	79
Crashes	226	221	219	208	206	198	199	195	186	183	181	189	190	200	203

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

NOTES

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 trafficway, which results in the death of a vehicle occupant or a nonmotorist within 30 days of the crash.

Crashes are the rounded sum of fatal crashes, an actual count from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, and injury crashes and property damage only crashes, which are estimates from the National Automotive Sampling System-General Estimates System.

SOURCES

Fatalities:

1960-70: Estimated by 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).

1975-2015: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812376, February 2017.

Injured persons and crashes:

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812376, February 2017.

Vehicle-miles:

1960-65: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995, FHWA-PL-97-009 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table VM-201A, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm as of Apr. 13, 2011.

1970-2015: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table VM-1, and similar tables in earlier editions, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm as of Mar. 28, 2017.

Fatality, injury, and crash rates:

Calculated by U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

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Table 2-17: Motor Vehicle Safety Data