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Fatal Motor Vehicle Accidents--National Summary: 1990 to 2005 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 1073)

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About

The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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Credits

US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)
Washington, DC, 2007;
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/Crash/Index.html

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,

Fatality Analysis Reporting System, annual.

See Internet site < http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/Crash/Index.html >

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,

Fatality Analysis Reporting System, annual.

See Internet site < http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/Crash/Index.html >

For more information

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/

The FHWA data include all vehicles which have been registered at any ti…

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/Crash/Index.html

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,

Fatality Analysis Reporting System, annual.

See Internet site < http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/Crash/Index.html >

referenced on dataset section historical (#3)

Usage Notes

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Rights Info

All US Census Bureau materials, regardless of the media, are entirely in the public domain. There are no user fees, site licenses, or any special agreements etc for the public or private use, and or reuse of any census title. As tax funded product, it’s all in the public record.
Some of our products, however, are special cases. […] The Statistical Abstract has some data covered by copyright law. Check the table’s footnotes to determine if the data are covered by copyright law.

File structure

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
    corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
    gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
    data were changed.
The tables that were changed: 0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
    comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data
    follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. Deaths within 30 days of the accident.
  2. Trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less,
    including pickups, vans, truck-based station wagons, and utility vehicles.
  3. Trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of over 10,000 pounds.
  4. VMT = vehicle miles of travel.

historical (pg 3)

  1. Trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less,
    including pick-ups, vans, truck-based station wagons, and utility vehicles.
  2. Trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of over 10,000 pounds.
  3. VMT = vehicle miles of travel.

Headnotes

[Based on data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).
FARS gathers data on accidents that result in loss of human life.
FARS is operated and maintained by National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration’s (NHTSA) National Center for Statistics and Analysis
(NCSA). FARS data are gathered on motor vehicle accidents that occurred
on a roadway customarily open to the public, resulting in the death of
a person within 30 days of the accident; collection of these data
depend on the use of police, hospital,
medical examiner/coroner, and Emergency Medical Services reports,
State vehicle registration, driver licensing, and highway department
files, and vital statistics documents and death certificates.
See source for further detail]

Shape

table: [80, 9]

Snippet

Fatal crashes, total 39836 37241 37526 37862 38491 38477 38444 39189
One vehicle involved 23445 21250 21117 21510 22164 21775 21836 22653
Two or more vehicles involved 16391 15991 16409 16352 16327 16702 16608 16536
Persons killed in fatal crashes 1 44599 41817 41945 42196 43005 42884 42836 43443
Occupants 37134 35291 36348 36440 37375 37341 37304 37594
Drivers 25750 24390 25567 25869 26659 26779 26871 27472
Passengers 11276 10782 10695 10469 10604 10458 10355 10036
Other 108 119 86 102 112 104 78 86
Nonoccupants 7465 6526 5597 5756 5630 5543 5532 5849
9=. … snip
Fatality Analysis Reporting System, annual.
See Internet site <http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/Crash/Index.html>

Symbols

historical (pg 3)

  • (NA) Not available.

Tablenum

1073

Year

2008

History

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