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Number of incidents
Year Total 1997 252 1998 210 1999 309 2000 471 2001 370 2002 383 2003 452 2004 330 2005 266 2006...Excel | CSV | Table Version
Number of incidents
Notes: Incidents include attempts and threatening actions. The 2008 data are revised.
Source: International Maritime...
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Year Passenger car occupants Light-truck occupants Large-truck occupants Motorcycle riders General aviation Air carriers (actual and smoothed fatality rates)...Excel | CSV | Table Version
Notes: Air carrier data were smoothed using an exponential smoothing model, with a weight of 0.945 to reduce the year-to-year fluctuations. Air carrier fatalities resulting...
Front cover City bus - Marsha Fenn Airplane - Pavel Jedlicka Cargo ship - Elliott Linder Passenger rail - BTS Staff
Back cover Truck - BTS Staff Train - BTS Staff Pipeline - Kevin Abbott Freeway - James Lin
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