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TABLE B-5
Transportation Accidents by Mode: 1995-2006
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Air |
2,179 |
2,046 |
1,991 |
2,040 |
2,043 |
1,985 |
1,852 |
1,823 |
1,869 |
1,717 |
1871 |
1603 |
U.S. air carrier |
36 |
37 |
49 |
50 |
51 |
56 |
46 |
41 |
54 |
30 |
40 |
31 |
Commuter carrier |
12 |
11 |
16 |
8 |
13 |
12 |
7 |
7 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
3 |
On-demand air taxi |
75 |
90 |
82 |
77 |
74 |
80 |
72 |
60 |
74 |
66 |
66 |
54 |
General aviation |
2,056 |
1,908 |
1,844 |
1,905 |
1,905 |
1,837 |
1,727 |
1,715 |
1,739 |
1,617 |
1,669 |
1,515 |
Highway |
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 |
Passenger car |
5,593,685 |
5,598,699 |
5,423,286 |
5,146,124 |
4,915,734 |
4,926,243 |
4,831,842 |
4,802,056 |
4,746,307 |
4,557,316 |
4,498,869 |
4,341,688 |
Motorcycle |
66,354 |
66,224 |
61,451 |
54,477 |
57,322 |
68,783 |
73,342 |
76,004 |
79,081 |
85,538 |
100,686 |
101,474 |
Truck, light |
2,749,596 |
2,880,782 |
2,900,896 |
2,866,729 |
3,079,617 |
3,207,738 |
3,254,105 |
3,272,326 |
3,345,165 |
3,369,938 |
3,381,985 |
3,355,291 |
Truck, large |
362,883 |
378,335 |
421,377 |
391,807 |
452,444 |
437,861 |
409,355 |
416,467 |
436,082 |
399,096 |
423,016 |
367,920 |
Bus |
58,847 |
57,185 |
53,376 |
53,385 |
62,591 |
55,594 |
54,264 |
57,958 |
57,672 |
52,144 |
80,427 |
51,554 |
Pipeline |
349 |
381 |
346 |
389 |
339 |
380 |
341 |
331 |
370 |
443 |
490 |
386 |
Hazardous liquid pipeline |
188 |
194 |
171 |
153 |
167 |
146 |
130 |
147 |
131 |
144 |
139 |
110 |
Gas pipeline |
161 |
187 |
175 |
236 |
172 |
234 |
211 |
184 |
239 |
299 |
351 |
276 |
Railroad |
7,092 |
6,700 |
6,262 |
6,083 |
6,257 |
6,485 |
6,260 |
5,815 |
5,991 |
6,454 |
6,299 |
5,823 |
Highway-rail grade
crossing |
4,633 |
4,257 |
3,865 |
3,508 |
3,489 |
3,502 |
3,237 |
3,077 |
2,977 |
3,076 |
3,053 |
2,920 |
Railroad |
2,459 |
2,443 |
2,397 |
2,575 |
2,768 |
2,983 |
3,023 |
2,738 |
3,014 |
3,378 |
3,246 |
2,903 |
Transit |
25,683 |
25,166 |
24,924 |
23,937 |
23,310 |
24,261 |
23,891 |
13,968 |
7,793 |
7,842 |
8,151 |
8,851 |
Highway-rail grade
crossing |
127 |
134 |
119 |
106 |
140 |
148 |
101 |
190 |
125 |
178 |
148 |
141 |
Transit |
25,556 |
25,032 |
24,805 |
23,831 |
23,170 |
24,113 |
23,790 |
13,778 |
7,668 |
7,664 |
8,003 |
8,710 |
Waterborne |
13,368 |
13,286 |
13,551 |
13,828 |
13,457 |
13,143 |
11,377 |
11,713 |
10,601 |
9,866 |
9,946 |
10,367 |
Vessel-related |
5,349 |
5,260 |
5,504 |
5,767 |
5,526 |
5,403 |
4,958 |
6,008 |
5,163 |
4,962 |
4,977 |
5,400 |
Recreational boating |
8,019 |
8,026 |
8,047 |
8,061 |
7,931 |
7,740 |
6,419 |
5,705 |
5,438 |
4,904 |
4,969 |
4,967 |
NOTES: U.S. air carriers includes all carriers who operate 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. Commuter
carriers include 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. On-demand air taxi includes all
nonscheduled service operating under 14 CFR 135. General
aviation includes all operations other than
those operating under 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135.
For Highway
totals 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.
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). 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.
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.
Railroad total includes Amtrak.
Accidents and incidents resulting from freight and passenger rail operations
including commuter rail. Highway-rail grade
crossing total includes accidents and incidents
occurring at highway-rail crossings resulting from freight and passenger rail
operations including commuter rail. Railroad includes only train accidents.
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.
Transit accident figures include collisions with vehicles, objects, and
people, derailments / vehicles going off the road of Directly Operated (DO)
modes only. 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. Highway-rail grade crossing for transit includes
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); 2005 (81); 2006 (74). Transit only includes accidents occurring at highway-rail grade crossings
resulting from operations of public transit rail modes excluding commuter
rail.
SOURCES: Various sources, as cited in
U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology
Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2007, table 2-3, available at http://www.bts.gov/ as of September
2007.
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