Traffic Safety Facts 2020 Data: Summary of Motor Vehicle Crashes

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Impaired drivers
  • Drunk drivers
  • Blood alcohol levels
  • Fatalities
  • Injuries
  • Vehicle miles of travel
  • Speeding
  • Restraint systems
  • Passenger vehicles
  • Rural areas
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT HS 813 369
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Traffic Safety Facts
• Description:
  This edition of Traffic Safety Facts briefly summarizes motor vehicle crash data from 2020 and compares them to the period 2011 to 2020. Among the key findings: In 2020 an estimated 38,824 people were killed in 5,250,837 police-reported traffic crashes and an estimated 2,282,015 people were injured, a 6.8 percent increase in fatalities compared to 2019, but a 16.7 percent decrease in the estimated number of people injured; the estimated number of police-reported crashes declined 22.3 percent from 2019 to 2020; on average one person was killed every 14 minutes and 4 people were injured every minute in traffic crashes; 11,654 people were killed in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes, one every 45 minutes; fatalities in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes increased 14.3 percent from 2019 to 2020; speeding-related fatalities increased 17 percent; a pedestrian was killed every 81 minutes and injured every 10 ; of the 1,093 children killed in traffic crashes, 229 (21%) were killed in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes; 6,549 people 65 and older were killed in traffic crashes, 17 percent of all traffic fatalities and a 10-percent decrease from 2019; 41 percent of motorcycle riders who died in single-vehicle crashes in 2020 were alcohol-impaired.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/77477/dot_77477_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 696.71 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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