Crash Statistics - Featured articles:The recently-released global road safety report from the U.N. says crashes are an economic threat as well as a health issue More »
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has prepared a comprehensive 149-page report on traffic fatalities and estimates of injuries for 2006. There are significant declines but SUVs did not do well More »
With 5 times Britain's population the U.S. has 13 times as many road traffic fatalities More »
Nearly 9 out of 10 intersections studied have hazards that put children at risk as they walk to and from school. And drivers are a major problem. More »
New research shows that vehicle parts, cargo, or other stuff discharged from vehicles while driving is estimated to cause over 25,000 crashes per year in North America. More »
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CVARS is a cooperative effort between the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). Its aim is an improved national data system of all crashes involving commercial motor vehicles and a new national analytical data system similar to FARS
Preliminary report of motor vehicle traffic crash characteristics and resulting injuries and fatalities from the National Automotive Sampling System (USA).
FARS contains data on all vehicle crashes in the USA that occur on a public roadway and involve a fatality in the crash.
United Nations Secretary General's report on improving road safety around the world. Prepared by the World Health Organization
Reader's Digest asked statisticians at the National Safety Council to analyze traffic deaths to determine common ways that "good" drivers--any of those found not at fault in an accident--were killed.
The database has operated since 1990 within the framework of the OECD Road Transport Research Programme and includes data from all OECD countries on topics such as traffic deaths per 100,000 population or per mile driven. (English, French, and German.)
Traffic accidents take a half million lives and injure another 15 million people around the world each year, and the numbers are growing says the Red Cross.
Article from the U.S. NHTSA. Over 6.3 million police-reported crashes occur each year in the USA, resulting in more than 41,000 fatalities. Lengthy report; look for the green bar graphs.
The Global Road Safety Steering Comittee works to raise awareness of road safety issues globally through the U.N.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has prepared this report on traffic fatalities and estimates of injuries for 2006
The World report on road traffic injury prevention is the first major report being jointly issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank on this subject.
