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Table 2-1: Highway Traffic Fatalities and Fatality Rates: 2012

Thursday, September 18, 2014

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State Traffic fatalities Licensed drivers (thousands) Registered vehicles1 (thousands) Vehicle-miles traveled (millions) Population (thousands) Fatality rate per 100,000 Population
Alabama 865 3,828 4,712 64,959 4,822 17.9
Alaska 59 526 743 4,792 731 8.1
Arizona 825 4,698 5,014 60,129 6,553 12.6
Arkansas1 552 2,199 2,404 33,522 2,949 18.7
California 2,857 24,201 26,915 326,272 38,041 7.5
Colorado 472 3,808 4,378 46,769 5,188 9.1
Connecticut 236 2,486 2,623 31,269 3,590 6.6
Delaware 114 720 913 9,186 917 12.4
District of Columbia 15 401 318 3,572 632 2.4
Florida 2,424 13,897 15,047 191,374 19,318 12.5
Georgia1 1,192 6,582 7,446 107,488 9,920 12.0
Hawaii 126 915 1,196 10,050 1,392 9.0
Idaho 184 1,093 1,580 16,315 1,596 11.5
Illinois1 956 8,236 9,767 104,578 12,875 7.4
Indiana 779 5,376 5,781 78,923 6,537 11.9
Iowa1 365 2,217 3,331 31,596 3,074 11.9
Kansas 405 2,018 2,368 30,572 2,886 14.0
Kentucky1 746 2,985 3,570 47,344 4,380 17.0
Louisiana1 722 2,924 3,821 46,889 4,602 15.7
Maine1 164 1,008 1,127 14,199 1,329 12.3
Maryland 505 4,102 3,861 56,476 5,885 8.6
Massachusetts2 349 4,734 4,826 55,940 6,646 5.3
Michigan 938 7,019 7,532 94,548 9,883 9.5
Minnesota1 395 3,322 4,857 56,988 5,379 7.3
Mississippi1 582 1,958 2,024 38,667 2,985 19.5
Missouri 826 4,288 5,509 68,504 6,022 13.7
Montana 205 758 1,330 11,885 1,005 20.4
Nebraska 212 1,364 1,836 19,277 1,856 11.4
Nevada1 258 1,728 2,061 24,148 2,759 9.4
New Hampshire3,4 108 1,065 1,223 12,894 1,321 8.2
New Jersey 589 6,040 7,579 74,225 8,865 6.6
New Mexico 365 1,430 1,739 25,562 2,086 17.5
New York3,4 1,168 11,249 10,103 128,221 19,570 6.0
North Carolina5 1,292 6,678 7,593 104,950 9,752 13.2
North Dakota 170 503 776 10,081 700 24.3
Ohio 1,123 8,006 9,777 112,715 11,544 9.7
Oklahoma1 708 2,400 3,312 47,872 3,815 18.6
Oregon 336 2,770 3,441 33,173 3,899 8.6
Pennsylvania 1,310 8,843 10,052 98,884 12,764 10.3
Rhode Island2 64 750 821 7,807 1,050 6.1
South Carolina 863 3,456 3,785 49,036 4,724 18.3
South Dakota1 133 607 930 9,113 833 16.0
Tennessee1 1,014 4,574 5,225 71,167 6,456 15.7
Texas1 3,398 15,252 19,790 237,836 26,059 13.0
Utah 217 1,789 1,919 26,528 2,855 7.6
Vermont 77 530 576 7,216 626 12.3
Virginia 777 5,538 6,917 80,959 8,186 9.5
Washington1 444 5,228 5,633 56,762 6,897 6.4
West Virginia 339 1,242 1,401 19,226 1,855 18.3
Wisconsin1 615 4,057 4,934 59,087 5,726 10.7
Wyoming1 123 422 768 9,271 576 21.3
United States, total 33,561 211,815 245,184 2,968,815 313,914 10.7

1State did not report active registrations and registers vehicles annually. Annual transaction data shown.

2State did not report active registrations and offers multi-year registrations. Data estimated from current and previously published data.

3State did not provide current data, licensed drivers estimated by FHWA.

4State did not report current year data. Previous year data used for private vehicles.

5State data estimated from North Carolina Department of Transportation published data and other data sources.

SOURCES: Fatalities: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Encyclopedia, available at www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov as of June 2014. Drivers, vehicles, and VMT: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics, DL-22, MV-1, and VM-2, available at www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm as of June 2014. Population: U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates, available at www.census.gov/popest as of June 2014.