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TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010

4/27/2010

National Car Accident Statistics

  • There are more than six million car accidents each year in the United States.
  • A person dies in a car accident every 12 minutes and each year car crashes kill 40,000 people.
  • The leading cause of death for individuals between 2 and 34 years old is motor vehicle crashes.
  • Someone is injured by a car crash every 14 seconds and about two million of the people injured in car accidents each year suffer permanent injuries.
  • Over 25% of all drivers were involved in an auto accident in a five-year period.
  • Excessive speed is the second most common cause of deadly auto accidents, which accounts for about 30% of fatal accidents.
  • Car crashes cost each American more than $1,000 a year; $164.2 billion is the total cost each year across the United States.
  • Car accidents are the leading cause of death for kids between 2 and 14; About 2,000 children die each year from injuries caused by car accidents.
  • Each year, almost 250,000 children are injured in car crashes, meaning nearly 700 kids are harmed every day.
  • Car accidents are the leading cause of acquired disability nationwide.

2008 Car Accident Statistics

  • In 2008, the number of overall traffic fatalities reached a record low since 1961, and that number continued to decrease in the first few months of 2009.
  • The number of car crash deaths in 2008, 37,261, dropped 9.7% from the number of deaths in 2007; this is the largest annual reduction since 1982.
  • The 2008 passenger car occupant fatalities have decreased for the sixth year in a row, accounting for 25,351 deaths. This is the lowest number since 1975 when the NHTSA began collecting fatality crash data.
  • Motor vehicle traffic crashes injured about 2.35 million people in 2008, which is the lowest number the NHTSA has seen since it began collecting injury data in 1988.
  • In 2008, there were a total of over 5.8 million car crashes, 1,630,000 causing injury, 4,146,000 resulting in property-damage only, and 34,017 ending in death.
  • There were 15,983 urban crash fatalities in 2008, decreasing 11% from 2007.
  • Car accident deaths in rural crashes totaled 20,905, a 10% decrease from 2007.

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