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Notes:

The injury and crash data in this table are from NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) General Estimates System (GES), and the Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS). FARS, which began operation in 1975, is a census of all police-reported traffic crashes resulting in a death within 30 days of the crash. Data from the NASS GES, which began operation in 1988, was obtained from a nationally representative probability sample selected from all police-reported crashes. The NASS GES sample includes only crashes where a police crash report was completed and the crash resulted in property damage, injury, or death. The resulting figures do not take into account crashes that were not reported to the police or that did not result in property damage. NHTSA's National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) redesigned the nationally representative sample of police-reported traffic crashes. The new system, CRSS, replaced NASS GES in 2016. CRSS has a different sample design than NASS GES. 

Injured persons are the sum of motorcyclists injured in fatal crashes, an actual count from FARS, and motorcyclists injured in injury crashes, which are estimates from NASS GES/CRSS.

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

Since Vehicle-miles data for 2000 and later years are estimated using enhanced methodology, data for these years are not comparable with prior years or with numbers published in the previous NTS reports. 

Description:

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

^a Include riders (operators) and passengers.

Source:

Fatalities:

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) 1975-2022 Final File, and 2023 Annual Report File (ARF), personal communications, as of Jun. 3, 2025.

Injured persons, and Motorcycles involved in crashes:

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) 1988-2022 Final File, 2023 Annual Report File (ARF); National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) General Estimates System (GES) 1988-2015 and Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS) 2016-2023, personal communications, as of Jun. 3, 2025.

Vehicle-miles:

1975-95: 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.

1996-2023: 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 Jun. 6, 2025.

Fatality, injury, and crash rates:

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