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Table
2-3: Transportation Accidents by Mode
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| Air |
4,883 |
5,279 |
4,767 |
4,232 |
3,818 |
2,935 |
2,388 |
2,334 |
2,228 |
2,172 |
2,140 |
2,179 |
2,046 |
1,991 |
2,040 |
2,043 |
1,985 |
1,852 |
1,823 |
1,869 |
1,717 |
1,781 |
(R) 1,607 |
1,722 |
| U.S. air carriera |
90 |
83 |
55 |
37 |
19 |
21 |
24 |
26 |
18 |
23 |
23 |
36 |
37 |
49 |
50 |
51 |
56 |
46 |
41 |
54 |
30 |
40 |
(R) 33 |
26 |
| Commuter carrierb |
N |
N |
N |
48 |
38 |
18 |
15 |
23 |
23 |
16 |
10 |
12 |
11 |
16 |
8 |
13 |
12 |
7 |
7 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
| On-demand air taxic |
N |
N |
N |
152 |
171 |
157 |
107 |
88 |
76 |
69 |
85 |
75 |
90 |
82 |
77 |
74 |
80 |
72 |
60 |
(R) 73 |
66 |
(R) 65 |
(R) 53 |
62 |
| General aviationd |
4,793 |
5,196 |
4,712 |
3,995 |
3,590 |
2,739 |
2,242 |
2,197 |
2,111 |
2,064 |
2,022 |
2,056 |
1,908 |
1,844 |
1,905 |
1,905 |
1,837 |
1,727 |
1,715 |
(R)
1,740 |
1,617 |
(R)
1,670 |
(R)
1,518 |
1,631 |
| Highway,
total crashese |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
6,471,000 |
6,117,000 |
6,000,000 |
6,106,000 |
6,496,000 |
6,699,000 |
6,770,000 |
6,624,000 |
6,335,000 |
6,279,000 |
6,394,000 |
6,323,000 |
6,316,000 |
6,328,000 |
6,181,000 |
6,159,000 |
5,973,000 |
U |
| Passenger
car |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
5,560,592 |
5,178,450 |
5,042,203 |
5,040,116 |
5,401,164 |
5,593,685 |
5,598,699 |
5,423,286 |
5,146,124 |
4,915,734 |
4,926,243 |
4,831,842 |
4,802,056 |
4,746,620 |
4,557,453 |
4,498,869 |
4,341,688 |
U |
| Motorcycle |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
103,114 |
105,030 |
72,177 |
74,565 |
68,752 |
66,354 |
66,224 |
61,451 |
54,477 |
57,322 |
68,783 |
73,342 |
76,004 |
79,131 |
85,557 |
100,686 |
101,474 |
U |
| Truckf, light |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
2,152,486 |
2,200,134 |
2,191,171 |
2,407,212 |
2,573,701 |
2,749,596 |
2,880,782 |
2,900,896 |
2,866,729 |
3,079,617 |
3,207,738 |
3,254,105 |
3,272,326 |
3,345,367 |
3,370,062 |
3,381,985 |
3,355,291 |
U |
| Truckf, large |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
371,801 |
318,637 |
362,807 |
383,220 |
444,697 |
362,883 |
378,335 |
421,377 |
391,807 |
452,444 |
437,861 |
409,372 |
416,477 |
436,161 |
399,156 |
423,016 |
367,920 |
U |
| Bus |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
60,412 |
56,285 |
49,705 |
51,353 |
55,818 |
58,847 |
57,185 |
53,376 |
53,385 |
62,591 |
55,594 |
54,264 |
57,958 |
57,674 |
52,148 |
50,427 |
51,554 |
U |
| Railroad,
totalg |
N |
N |
11,654 |
20,117 |
18,817 |
10,194 |
8,594 |
8,046 |
7,269 |
7,503 |
7,483 |
7,092 |
6,700 |
6,262 |
6,083 |
6,257 |
6,485 |
6,260 |
5,815 |
(R) 5,994 |
(R) 6,459 |
(R) 6,319 |
(R) 5,905 |
5,399 |
| Highway-rail grade crossingh |
3,195 |
3,820 |
3,559 |
12,076 |
10,612 |
6,919 |
5,715 |
5,388 |
4,910 |
4,892 |
4,979 |
4,633 |
4,257 |
3,865 |
3,508 |
3,489 |
3,502 |
3,237 |
3,077 |
2,977 |
(R)
3,079 |
(R)
3,058 |
(R)
2,937 |
2,752 |
| Railroadi |
N |
N |
8,095 |
8,041 |
8,205 |
3,275 |
2,879 |
2,658 |
2,359 |
2,611 |
2,504 |
2,459 |
2,443 |
2,397 |
2,575 |
2,768 |
2,983 |
3,023 |
2,738 |
(R)
3,017 |
(R)
3,380 |
(R)
3,261 |
(R)
2,968 |
2,647 |
| Transit, totalj |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
58,002 |
46,467 |
36,380 |
30,559 |
29,972 |
25,683 |
25,166 |
24,924 |
23,937 |
23,310 |
24,261 |
23,891 |
13,968 |
7,793 |
7,842 |
8,151 |
8,851 |
9,398 |
| Highway-rail grade crossingk |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
127 |
134 |
119 |
106 |
140 |
148 |
101 |
190 |
125 |
178 |
148 |
141 |
174 |
| Transitl |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
25,556 |
25,032 |
24,805 |
23,831 |
23,170 |
24,113 |
23,790 |
13,778 |
7,668 |
7,664 |
8,003 |
8,710 |
9,224 |
| Waterborne,
total |
N |
N |
6,385 |
9,618 |
10,137 |
9,676 |
10,024 |
8,795 |
11,631 |
12,461 |
13,649 |
13,368 |
13,286 |
13,551 |
13,828 |
13,457 |
13,143 |
11,377 |
11,713 |
10,601 |
9,866 |
9,946 |
10,367 |
U |
| Vessel-relatedm |
N |
N |
2,582 |
3,310 |
4,624 |
3,439 |
3,613 |
2,222 |
5,583 |
6,126 |
6,743 |
5,349 |
5,260 |
5,504 |
5,767 |
5,526 |
5,403 |
4,958 |
6,008 |
5,163 |
4,962 |
4,977 |
5,400 |
U |
| Recreational
boating |
2,738 |
3,752 |
3,803 |
6,308 |
5,513 |
6,237 |
6,411 |
6,573 |
6,048 |
6,335 |
6,906 |
8,019 |
8,026 |
8,047 |
8,061 |
7,931 |
7,740 |
6,419 |
5,705 |
5,438 |
4,904 |
4,969 |
4,967 |
5,191 |
| Pipeline,
total |
N |
N |
1,428 |
1,592 |
1,770 |
517 |
378 |
449 |
389 |
445 |
467 |
349 |
381 |
346 |
389 |
339 |
380 |
341 |
331 |
370 |
443 |
(R) 490 |
(R) 407 |
402 |
| Hazardous
liquid pipeline |
N |
N |
351 |
254 |
246 |
183 |
180 |
216 |
212 |
229 |
245 |
188 |
194 |
171 |
153 |
167 |
146 |
130 |
147 |
131 |
144 |
138 |
(R) 120 |
116 |
| Gas
pipeline |
N |
N |
1,077 |
1,338 |
1,524 |
334 |
198 |
233 |
177 |
216 |
222 |
161 |
187 |
175 |
236 |
172 |
234 |
211 |
184 |
239 |
299 |
(R) 352 |
(R) 287 |
286 |
Key: N = data do not exist; R = revised; U =
data are not available.
a Carriers operating under 14 CFR 121, all scheduled and
nonscheduled service. Since Mar. 20,
1997, 14 CFR 121 includes only aircraft with 10 or more seats formerly
operated under 14 CFR 135. This change makes it difficult to compare pre-1997
data for 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135 with more recent years' data.
b All scheduled service operating under 14 CFR
135. Since Mar. 20, 1997, 14 CFR 121
includes only aircraft with 10 or more seats formerly operated under 14 CFR
135. This change makes it difficult to
compare pre-1997 data for 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135 with more recent years'
data.
c Nonscheduled service operating under 14 CFR
135.
d All operations other than those operating
under 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135.
e The U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration uses the term "crash" instead of
accident in its highway safety data. Highway crashes often involve more than
one motor vehicle, hence "total highway crashes" is smaller than
the sum of the components. Estimates of highway crashes are rounded to the
nearest thousand in the source document.
f Large trucks are
defined as trucks over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, including
single-unit trucks and truck tractors. Light trucks are defined as trucks of
10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating or less, including pickups, vans,
truck-based station wagons, and utility vehicles.
g Includes Amtrak. Accidents and incidents
resulting from freight and passenger rail operations including commuter rail.
Railroad accident data for 1970 and before are not comparable with post-1970
data due to a change in the reporting system.
h Accidents and incidents
occurring at highway-rail crossings resulting from freight and passenger rail
operations including commuter rail. Data not comparable after 1970 due to
change in reporting system. Most highway-rail grade crossing accidents are
also counted under highway.
i Train accidents only.
j Accident figures include collisions with
vehicles, objects, and people, derailments / vehicles going off the
road. Accident figures do not include
fires and personal casualties. The drop in the number of accidents in 2002 is
due largely to a change in definitions by the Federal Transit Administration,
particularly the definition of injuries.
Only injuries requiring immediate medical treatment away from the
scene now qualify as reportable. Previously, any injury was reportable.
Directly Operated (DO) modes only.
k Accidents occurring at
highway-rail grade crossings resulting from operations of public transit rail
modes including commuter rail. Data for light rail crossings are: 1995 (98);
1996 (97); 1997 (66); 1998 (66); 1999 (103); 2000 (106); 2001 (54); 2002 (112);
2003 (66); 2004 (107).
l Accidents occurring at
highway-rail grade crossings resulting from operations of public transit rail
modes excluding commuter rail.
m 1992-97 data come from the
Marine Safety Management Information System. Between 1998 and 2001 the U.S.
Coast Guard phased in a new computer system to track safety data, the Marine
Information for Safety and Law Enforcement System. During that period data
come from combining entries in the Marine Safety Management Information
System with entries in the Marine Information for Safety and Law Enforcement
System. Data for 2002 and 2003 come from the Marine Information for Safety
and Law Enforcement System. Data for
prior years come from other sources and may not be directly comparable.
NOTES
The
motor vehicle crash data in this table come from the U.S. Department of
Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administrations' General
Estimates System (GES), which began operation in 1988. GES data are obtained
from a nationally representative probability sample selected from all
police-reported crashes. The GES
sample includes only crashes where a police accident report was completed and
the crash resulted in property damage, injury, or death. The resulting figures do not take into
account crashes that were not reported to the police or did not result in
property damage.
The
Federal Railroad Administration defines a grade crossing as a location where
a public highway, road, street, or private roadway, including associated
sidewalks and pathways, crosses one or more railroad tracks at grade. The
Federal Transit Administration defines two types of grade crossings: (1) At
grade, mixed, and cross traffic crossings, meaning railway right-of-way over
which other traffic moving in the same direction or other cross directions
may pass. This includes city street right-of-way; (2) At grade with cross
traffic crossings, meaning railway right-of-way over which no other traffic
may pass, except to cross at grade-level crossings. This can include median
strip rights-of-way with grade level crossings at intersecting streets.
SOURCES
Air:
Air carrier:
1960: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier
Operations, Calendar Year 1967 (Washington,
DC: December 1968).
1965-70: Ibid., Annual Review of
Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1975, NTSB/ARC-77/1 (Washington, DC: January 1977).
1975: Ibid., Annual Review of Aircraft
Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1983, NTSB/ARC-87/01 (Washington, DC: February 1987), table 18.
1980: Ibid., Annual Review of Aircraft
Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier Operations, Calendar Year 1981, NTSB/ARC-85/01 (Washington, DC: February 1985), tables 2 and
16.
1985-2006: Ibid., personal communication, Sept. 4, 2007.
2007:
National Transportation Safety Board, Aviation Accident Statistics, Table 5,
available at http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Stats.htm, as of August 2008.
Commuter air carrier:
1975-80: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier
Operations, Calendar Year 1980, NTSB/ARC-83/01
(Washington, DC: January 1983), tables 26 and 40.
1985-2006: Ibid., personal communication, Sept. 4, 2007.
2007:
National Transportation Safety Board, Aviation Accident Statistics, Table 8,
available at http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Stats.htm, as of August 2008.
On-demand air taxi:
1975-80: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: U.S. Air Carrier
Operations, Calendar Year 1981, NTSB/ARC-85/01
(Washington, DC: February 1985), table 61.
1985-2006: Ibid., personal communication, Sept. 4, 2007.
2007:
National Transportation Safety Board, Aviation Accident Statistics, Table 9,
available at http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Stats.htm, as of August 2008.
General aviation:
1960-70: National Transportation Safety Board, Annual Review of Aircraft Accident Data: General
Aviation, Calendar Year 1970, NTSB/ARG-74/1
(Washington, DC: April 1974), table 117.
1975-80: Ibid., Annual Review of
Aircraft Accident Data: General Aviation, Calendar Year 1985, NTSB/ARG-87/03 (Washington, DC: October 1987), table 21.
1985-2006: Ibid., personal communication, Sept. 4, 2007.
2007:
National Transportation Safety Board, Aviation Accident Statistics, Table 10,
available at http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Stats.htm, as of August 2008.
Highway:
U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts (Washington,
DC: Annual Issues), table 1, available at
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/cats/index.aspx as of October 2008.
Passenger car, motorcycle, light truck, large truck, and bus:
U.S.
Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Fatality Analysis Reporting
System Database and General Estimates System Database.
Rail:
Highway-rail grade crossings:
1960-70: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad
Administration, Office of Policy and Program Development, Rail-Highway Grade-Crossing Accidents (Washington, DC: Annual issues).
1975-80: Ibid., Office of Policy and Program Development,
personal communication.
1985-90: Ibid., Rail-Highway Crossing
Accident/Incident and Inventory Bulletin (Washington,
DC: Annual issues), table S.
1991-99: Ibid., Interim Railroad
Safety Statistics Annual Report 2002 (Washington,
DC: August 2003), table 1-1.
2000-07: Ibid., available at
http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/Default.asp as of Dec. 2, 2005.
Railroad:
1970-90: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad
Administration, Office of Policy and Program Development, Accident/Incident Bulletin (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table 4.
1991-99: Ibid., Interim Railroad
Safety Statistics Annual Report 2002 (Washington,
DC: August 2003), table 1-1.
2000-2007: Ibid., available at
http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/officeofsafety/Default.asp as of November 2008.
Transit:
Highway-rail grade crossings:
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal
Transit Administration, Office of Program Management, personal communication
as of Sept. 4, 2007.
1990-92: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit
Administration, Safety Management Information
Statistics 2000 (Washington, DC: 2000), pp.
51-54 and personal communication, July 28, 2003.
1993-2005: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit
Administration, Transit Safety and Security
Statistics and Analysis Annual Report (Washington,
DC: Annual issues) available at
http://transit-safety.volpe.dot.gov/data/SAMIS.asp as of Sept. 4, 2007.
2006-2007: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research
and Innovative Technology Administration, Volpe Center, Transit Safety and
Security Statistics and Analysis Program, personal communication, Oct. 20,
2008.
Water:
Vessel-related:
1970-91: U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard,
Office of Investigations and Analysis, Compliance Analysis Division, personal
communication, Apr. 13, 1999.
1992-2006: U.S Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast
Guard, Data Administration Division (G-MRI-1), personal communication, June
8, 2005.
Recreational boating:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Office
of Boating Safety, Boating Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), available at
http://www.uscgboating.org/statistics/accident_stats.htm as of September 4,
2007.
Hazardous liquid and gas pipeline:
1970-2007: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and
Special Programs Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, Accident and Incident Summary Statistics by Year, available at http://ops.dot.gov as of November 2008.
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