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Per thousand employees
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1993 1998 All occupations 0.056 0.047 Transportation occupations 0.267 0.259 Truck drivers 0.328 0.325 Drivers (sales workers) 0.133 0.124 Bus...Excel | CSV
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database, available at www.nhtsa.dot.gov, as of...
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Class Averagemiles per shipment Flammable solids 838 Explosives 549 Radioactive materials 445 Toxics (poison) 402 Corrosive materials 201 Oxidizers/organic peroxides 193 Flammable liquids...Excel | CSV
Category Number Percent Passenger car occupants 20,818 47.5 Light-truck occupants 11,243 25.6 Pedestrians struck by motor vehicles 4,906 11.2 Motorcyclists 2,472 5.6 Large-truck occupants 758 1.7...Excel | CSV
Year Air carriers1 Commuter air1 On-demand air taxi2 General aviation2 Highway3 Rail4 Transit5 Waterborne6 Recreational boating Gas and hazardous liquid pipeline 1975 124 28 69 1,252 44,525 575 N 573 1,466...Excel | CSV
Top 10 factors cited Large trucks Passenger vehicles Failure to yield right-of-way 5.3% 20.3% Ran off road/out of traffic lane 4.8% 27.8% Driving too...Usage from 40% to 49%: States: North Dakota, and South Dakota
Usage from 50% to 59%: States: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, West Virginia, and Wyoming
Usage from 60% to...
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Type of crash Number Drivers/occupants killed in single-vehicle crashes 17,052 Drivers/occupants killed in two-vehicle crashes 15,690 Drivers/occupants killed in crashes of three-...Text version
1 Primary enforcement allows police officers to stop vehicles and write citations whenever they observe violations of safety belt laws. Secondary enforcement permits police officers to write a...
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SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, The Economic Cost of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 1994 (Washington, DC: 1996)