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Traffic Safety Facts 1996: Rural Areas
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1997-01-01
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TRIS Online Accession Number:00881137
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NTL Classification:NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Highway Safety;NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Accidents;NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Human Factors;NTL-REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIES-Statistics;
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Abstract:The Census Bureau provides rural and urban population breakdowns every 10 years. The latest figures available are for 1990, when rural areas made up 25 percent of the total U.S. population. The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) uses the variable "Roadway Function Class" to identify rural and urban areas, as determined by the state highway departments and approved by the Federal Highway Administration. In 1996, crashes in rural areas accounted for 59 percent of total motor vehicle fatalities. Although rural areas accounted for only 38 percent of total vehicle miles of travel in 1995, the fatality rate in those areas was 2.6 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, compared with 1.1 in urban areas (1996 data for vehicle miles traveled not available). Figure 1 shows number of traffic fatalities by location, 1986-1996; and Figure 2, percentage of traffic fatalities by location, 1986-1996.
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