Embedded Dataset Excel:

Dataset Excel:

Notes:

Fatalities data prior to 1975 have been adjusted to reflect the Fatality Analysis Reporting System's definition of a fatal crash as one that involves a motor vehicle on a trafficway, which results in the death of a vehicle occupant or a nonmotorist within 30 days of the crash.

Injured persons are the sum of people injured in fatal crashes, an actual count from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), and people injured in injury crashes, which are estimates from the National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) - General Estimates System (GES)/Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS).

Crashes are the sum of fatal crashes, an actual count from FARS, and injury crashes and property damage only crashes, which are estimates from NASS GES/CRSS.

NHTSA's National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) redesigned the nationally representative sample of police-reported traffic crashes, which estimates the number of police-reported injury and property-damage-only crashes in the US. The new system, called CRSS, replaced NASS/GES in 2016.

CRSS has a different sample design than NASS GES. Thus, the 2016 and later year estimates from CRSS are not comparable to 2015 and earlier year estimates from NASS GES.

Crashes are the rounded sum of fatal crashes, an actual count from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, and injury crashes and property damage only crashes, which are estimates from the National Automotive Sampling System-General Estimates System.

Description:

KEY:  N = data do not exist; NA = not applicable; R = revised.

Source:

Fatalities:

1960-70: Estimated by U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from data supplied by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, and individual state accident reports (adjusted to 30-day deaths). 

1975-2022: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Database, personal communication, Oct. 16, 2018, Nov. 6, 2019, Jan. 6, 2021, Mar. 4, 2022, Apr. 19, 2023, and May 24, 2024.

Injured persons and crashes: 

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Database, National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) General Estimates System (GES) Database, and Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS) Database, personal communications, Jun. 7, 2012, May 22, 2013, Jun. 16, 2014, Sept. 15, 2017, Oct. 16, 2018, Nov. 6, 2019, Jan. 12, 2021, Mar. 4, 2022, Apr. 19, 2023, and May 24, 2024.

Vehicle-miles:

1960-65: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995, FHWA-PL-97-009 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table VM-201A, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm as of Apr. 13, 2011.

1970-2022: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table VM-202, and similar tables in earlier editions, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm as of Jul. 29, 2024.

Fatality, injury, and crash rates:

Calculated by U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics.