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Motor vehicle fatality rate in U.S. by year

Motor vehicle fatality rate in U.S. by year

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This table shows the motor vehicle fatality rate in the United States by year from 1899 through 2021. It excludes indirect car-related fatalities.

Per capita road accident deaths in the US reversed their decline in the early 2010s.[1][2]
United States motor vehicle deaths per year
Accidental deaths in the United States
2020

2004
  Poisoning
  Motor-vehicle
  Falls
  Choking
  Drowning
  Fires, flames, smoke
  Suffocation

For 2016, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported 37,461 people killed in 34,436 fatal motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day.[3]

In 2010, there were an estimated 5,419,000 crashes, 30,296 deadly, killing 32,999, and injuring 2,239,000.[4] About 2,000 children under 16 die every year in traffic collisions.[5] There were 3,613,732 motor vehicle fatalities reported in the United States from 1899 to 2013.

Although the number of deaths, and deaths relative to the total US population, declined over most of the previous two decades, the trend reversed in 2015 and continued to move upward in 2016 by 200%.[needs update] From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year decreased 14.97% while the number of deaths per capita decreased by 35.46%. The 32,479 traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest in 62 years, since 1949.[6] US government motor death statistics report only those on public roads, and do not include parking lots, driveways, and private roads.[7] Fatal car accidents in the U.S. have declined at a much slower rate over the last two decades then other developed countries.[8]

For more details, see Transportation safety in the United States.

Motor vehicle deaths in U.S. by year

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