1-4 Fatality Rates for Selected Modes: 1985-2008

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Notes: Air carrier data were smoothed using an exponential smoothing model, with a weight of 0.945 to reduce the year-to-year fluctuations. Air carrier fatalities resulting from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks include only onboard fatalities.

2007 passenger car occupant, light-truck occupant, large-truck occupant, and motorcycle rider data are revised. The 1992, 1995, 1998, and 2006 data are revised for general aviation fatalities and rates.

Sources: Passenger car occupants, Light-truck occupants, Large-truck occupants, and Motorcycle ridersU.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts 2008, table 7 to 10, available at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov as of October 2010. Air carriers and General aviationNational Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data U.S. Air Carrier Operations and U.S. General Aviation, available at http://www.ntsb.gov/ as of October 2010 as reported in U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, tables 2-9 and 2-14, available at http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/ as of October 2010.