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TABLE 3-4 Injuries for Occupants of Highway Vehicles and Motorcycles: 2003

Monday, September 10, 2012

TABLE 3-4 Injuries for Occupants of Highway Vehicles and Motorcycles: 2003

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Vehicle type Injuries per 100 million pmt Number of injuries
Passenger car 66.9 1,756,495
Motorcyclists 553.9 67,103
Light truck 51.4 889,048
Large truck 12.5 26,893
Bus 12.9 18,174
Total 58.4 2,757,713

KEY: pmt = passenger-miles of travel.

NOTE: Data may not add to total because of independent rounding.

SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), calculations using the following data: Injuries—USDOT, BTS, National Transportation Statistics 2005, table 2-2, available at http://www.bts.gov/, as of August 2005. Pmt—USDOT, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics 2003 (Washington, DC: 2004).