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Fatalities represent the most severe safety consequence for the transportation system. According to preliminary estimates, in 2000 there were 44,041 transportation-related...
1999 data are preliminary
Transit includes transit bus, light and heavy transit rail, commuter rail, paratransit, and other transit categories. Transit fatalities are transit-caused deaths confirmed within 30 days...
Most fatalities, injuries, and accidents in water transportation involve recreational boating. Most recreational boating is discretionary, and the purpose of trips generally is to spend time on the...
In most years, the overwhelming majority of people killed in train...
Rail accidents and incidents include any collision between railroad on-track equipment and other vehicles or pedestrians at grade crossings; any event...
Highway crashes caused 94 percent of all transportation-related fatalities in 2000. They were the leading cause of death of people ages 5 through 29 (...
All 2001 data are preliminary
Hazardous Materials Incidents by Mode (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)All 2001 data are...
The vast majority of transportation injuries involve motor vehicles. The number of light trucks has increased greatly since 1990, affecting...
Since 1990, rail injuries have declined by 55 percent.
Injured Persons by Mode ...For 2000, preliminary estimates indicate that 79 percent of the total injuries involving large truck crashes were occupants of other vehicles or outside the large truck....