Safety

Key: Empty Cell = data are not available.

Individual modes don't add up to totals due to double counting in Highway, Rail, and Highway-rail grade crossings. Transit includes transit employee, contract worker, passenger, people waiting or leaving (revenue facility occupant), and other fatalities for all modes reported to the National Transit Database. Excludes commuter rail (reporting under FRA jurisdiction). Other transit fatalities are assumed to be counted under Highway or Rail categories.

Source:

As cited in U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, table 2-1, available at www.bts.gov/nts.

Key: Empty Cell = data are not available.

Highway numbers from the 2019 and 2020 Crash Reporting Sampling System (CRSS) estimates for injuries are not comparable with 2010 and earlier NASS GES estimates because of different sampling designs. Highway-rail grade crossing excludes injuries involving motor vehicles at public highway-rail grade crossings, which are assumed to be counted under Highway categories. Transit includes transit employee, contract worker, passenger, people waiting or leaving (revenue facility occupant), and other injuries for all modes reported to the National Transit Database. Excludes commuter rail (reporting under FRA jurisdiction). Other transit injuries are assumed to be counted under Highway or Rail categories.

Highway numbers including totals are estimates rather than actual counts. The estimates are calculated from data obtained from a nationally representative sample of crashes. NHTSA redesigned the nationally representative sample of police-reported traffic crashes, which estimates the number of police-reported injury and property-damage-only crashes in the US. The new system, CRSS, replaced the NASS GES in 2016 and has a different sample design. Thus, the 2019 and 2020 persons injured estimates are not comparable to earlier estimates.

Source:

As cited in U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, table 2-2, available at http://www.bts.gov/nts.

Notes:

Graphs with same color trend lines have identical scales.

Sources:

Highway, Passenger car and light-truck occupants, Highway-nonoccupants, Large-truck occupants, U.S. air carriers, General aviation, and Recreational boating - as cited in or calculated from U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, tables 2-9, 2-14, 2-17, 2-19, 2-21, 2-23, 2-47, and 3-10 available at www.bts.gov/nts. Transit - U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, NTD Safety & Security Time Series Data, available at https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd. Rail - U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, table 1.12, available at https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/.

Includes fatalities occurring in any crash involving a driver with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08 grams per deciliter or higher.

U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Facts: Alcohol-Impaired Driving (Annual Issues).

Notes:

Includes pedestrians and riders of nonmotorized bicycles and other pedal-powered vehicles.

As cited in U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, table 2-1, available at www.bts.gov/nts.

Distracted driving involves any activity that could divert a person’s attention away from the primary task of driving, such as texting, using a cell phone, eating and drinking, grooming, using a navigation system, adjusting a radio, etc. Distracted driving fatality data for 2010 and on are not comparable with previous years due to changes in methodology. Crash Reporting Sampling System (CRSS) estimates for injuries are not comparable with 2015 and earlier NASS GES estimates because of different sampling designs. 

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, available at  https://www.nhtsa.gov/ .