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Auto Accident Statistics

Categories: (Safety and Security | Statistics | Vehicles and Equipment)

For transportation accident and safety statistics by mode of travel, see Chapter 2 of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) publication National Transportation Statistics:
http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/

Additional data can be found in Section 2 of the BTS publication Transportation Statistics Annual Report: http://www.bts.gov/publications/transportation_statistics_annual_report/

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) contains data on all vehicle crashes in the United States that occur on a public roadway and involve a fatality: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov

Additional reports are available on NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis web site:
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/ncsa/AvailInf.html



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