John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) (1984). Fatal accident reporting system : a review of information on fatal traffic accidents in the U.S. in 1983. National Center for Statistics and Analysis (U.S.). https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5835
John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.). Fatal accident reporting system : a review of information on fatal traffic accidents in the U.S. in 1983. National Center for Statistics and Analysis (U.S.), 1984. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5835.
John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) Fatal accident reporting system : a review of information on fatal traffic accidents in the U.S. in 1983. National Center for Statistics and Analysis (U.S.), 1984, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5835.
During 1983, 42,584 men, women, and children died in motor vehicle traffic accidents. That's more than 116 people per day. This is a 3.1 percent decline from the 1982 death toll of 43,945, and a 16.7 percent decline from the 1980 death toll of 51,091. Someone died on the Nation's
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highways every 12.3 minutes on average throughout 1983. More than 46 percent of all accidental deaths in the U.S. during 1983 occurred on the Nation's highways.
John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) (1984). Fatal accident reporting system : a review of information on fatal traffic accidents in the U.S. in 1983. National Center for Statistics and Analysis (U.S.). https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5835
John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.). Fatal accident reporting system : a review of information on fatal traffic accidents in the U.S. in 1983. National Center for Statistics and Analysis (U.S.), 1984. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5835.
John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) Fatal accident reporting system : a review of information on fatal traffic accidents in the U.S. in 1983. National Center for Statistics and Analysis (U.S.), 1984, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5835.
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