Table 4 Occupant and Nonmotorist Fatalities in Crashes by Number of Vehicles and Alcohol Involvement: 1999
Table 4 Occupant and Nonmotorist Fatalities in Crashes by Number of Vehicles and Alcohol Involvement: 1999
Fatalities | Alcohol involvement | Percent | |
---|---|---|---|
Occupants | 35,806 | 13,145 | 36.7 |
Single-vehicle crashes | 17,052 | 8,163 | 47.9 |
Two-vehicle crashes | 15,690 | 4,204 | 26.8 |
More than two-vehicle crashes | 3,064 | 778 | 25.4 |
Pedestrians | 4,906 | 2,325 | 47.3 |
Single-vehicle crashes | 4,488 | 2,090 | 46.6 |
Multiple-vehicle crashes | 418 | 235 | 56.2 |
Pedalcyclists | 750 | 286 | 38.1 |
Single-vehicle crashes | 714 | 267 | 37.4 |
Multiple-vehicle crashes | 36 | 19 | 55.6 |
Other/unknown | 149 | 31 | 20.8 |
Total | 41,611 | 15,786a | 37.9 |
a The total shows one fewer case of alcohol involvement thaen th sum of the subtotals. This is due to adjustment for rounding in the method used to estimate alcohol involvement.
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database, available at http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/www/query.html, as of December 2000.