Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes as a Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.: Summary of the 1997 Mortality Experience and Traffic Crash Fatality Trend From 1992 to 1997

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Corporate Contributors:
  National Center for Statistics and Analysis (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Traffic crashes
  • Traffic crash victims
  • Trend (Statistics)
  • Fatalities
  • Ethnic groups
  • Freight and passenger handling
  • Highways
  • Safety and Human Factors
  • Society
  • I81: Accident Statistics
• Publication/ Report Number:
  HS-043 105
• Resource Type:
  Other
• Geographical Coverage:
  Washington (District of Columbia) ; United States
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00797070
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  The National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) recently completed a study of data on the causes of death for all persons, by age and sex, which occurred in the U.S. in 1997. The purpose of this study was to examine the status of motor vehicle traffic crashes as a leading cause of death. The data on the causes of death for 1997 were obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The NCHS data for 1997 were studied to determine where deaths related to traffic crashes ranked as a cause of death for all ages, for males and females, and for various ethnic groups. Findings are reported in this Research Note. 2 p.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14389/dot_14389_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 24.47 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:53e4b433fd016dfeb42c6ee07eae3ce92821199fce7e451d9468b2c6a0cd2c22