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Table 5-1: Fatalities by Transportation Mode, Various Years

Friday, August 22, 2014
  1990 2000 2005 2009 2010 2011
TOTAL Fatalities 47,379 44,376 45,645 35,921 34,968 34,349
Air, total 866 764 603 548 473 485
U.S. air carrier 39 92 22 52 2 0
Commuter carrier 6 5 0 0 0 0
On-demand air taxi 51 71 18 17 17 41
General aviation 770 596 563 479 454 444
Highway, total 44,599 41,945 43,510 33,883 32,999 32,367
Passenger car occupants 24,092 20,699 18,512 13,135 12,491 11,981
Motorcyclists 3,244 2,897 4,576 4,469 4,518 4,612
Truck occupants, light 8,601 11,526 13,037 10,312 9,782 9,272
Truck occupants, large 705 754 804 499 530 635
Bus occupants 32 22 58 26 44 54
Pedestrians 6,482 4,763 4,892 4,109 4,302 4,432
Pedalcyclists 859 693 786 628 623 677
Other 584 591 845 705 709 704
Pipeline, total 9 38 14 13 22 14
Railroad, totala 729 631 626 535 600 557
Highway-rail grade crossing 130 119 101 88 125 110
Railroad 599 512 525 447 475 447
Transit, totalb 125 110 57 103 109 106
Highway-rail grade crossing U 20 23 35 36 18
Transit U 90 34 68 73 88
Waterborne, total 1,051 888 835 839 765 820
Vessel-related, commercial ship 85 53 78 50 41 28
Nonvessel-related, commercial shipc 101 134 60 53 52 34
Recreational boating 865 701 697 736 672 758

aExcludes fatalities involving motor vehicles at public highway-rail grade crossings, which are assumed to be counted under Highway categories.

bIncludes automated guideway, heavy rail, and light rail fatalities. Other transit fatalities are assumed to be counted under Highway or Rail categories.

cFatalities unrelated to vessel accidents, e.g., individual falling overboard and drowning.

KEY: U = data are unavailable

SOURCE: Various sources as cited in U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, table 2-1, available at www.bts.gov as of April 2014.