Traffic Safety Facts 2022 Data: Summary of Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes
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2024-09-01
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Edition:Traffic Safety Facts
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Abstract:In 2022 there were an estimated 5,930,496 police-reported traffic crashes in which 42,514 people were killed and an estimated 2,382,771 people were injured. Compared to 2021 there was a 1.7-percent decrease in the number of traffic fatalities, and a 4.6-percent decrease in the estimated number of people injured in 2022. The estimated number of police-reported traffic crashes decreased by 2.8 percent. One person was killed every 12 minutes and an estimated 5 people injured every minute in traffic crashes in 2022. This fact sheet for 2022 covers the following information: ten-year trends; traffic safety fact sheets; data by state; behavior; people; vehicles; crash locations; and economic costs for all traffic crashes.
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