Table 1 - Fatal Crashes by Speed Limits and Type of Road: 2000
Table 1 - Fatal Crashes by Speed Limits and Type of Road: 2000
Speed limit | Rural | Urban | Unknown1 | Total | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Interstate | Principal arterial | Other | Interstate | Principal arterial | Other | |||
30 mph or less | 1 | 35 | 926 | 3 | 540 | 2,249 | 110 | 3,864 |
35 or 40 mph | 9 | 147 | 1,738 | 42 | 1,664 | 2,602 | 158 | 6,360 |
45 or 50 mph | 33 | 526 | 2,831 | 105 | 1,700 | 1,325 | 153 | 6,673 |
55 mph | 174 | 1,893 | 7,538 | 594 | 1,002 | 535 | 407 | 12,143 |
60 mph or higher | 2,526 | 1,571 | 1,709 | 1,399 | 849 | 202 | 73 | 8,329 |
No posted limit | 1 | 1 | 139 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 157 |
Total | 2,744 | 4,173 | 14,881 | 2,144 | 5,757 | 6,925 | 902 | 37,526 |
1 "Unknown" includes fatal accidents for which road type or speed limit was unknown or not recorded in the accident report. In FARS, those data are reported separately.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database, available at http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/, as of April 2002.