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The Economic and Societal Impact of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 2019 (Revised)
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2023-02-01
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Edition:NHTSA Technical Report
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Abstract:In 2019 there were 36,500 people killed, 4.5 million people injured, and 23 million vehicles damaged in motor vehicle crashes in the United States. The economic costs of these crashes totaled $340 billion, including lost productivity, medical, legal and court costs, emergency service, insurance administration, congestion, property damage, and workplace losses. This is equivalent to $1,035 for each of the 328 million people living in the United States, and 1.6 percent of the $21.4 trillion real U.S. Gross Domestic Product in 2019. These figures include both police‐reported and unreported crashes. When quality-of-life valuations are considered, the total value of societal harm from motor vehicle crashes in 2019 was nearly $1.4 trillion. Lost market and household productivity accounted for $106 billion of the $340 billion, while property damage accounted for $115 billion. Medical expenses totaled $31 billion. Congestion caused by crashes, including travel delay, excess fuel consumption, greenhouse gases, and criteria pollutants accounted for $36 billion. Each fatality resulted in an average discounted lifetime cost of $1.6 million in economic costs, and $11.3 million when quality-of-life valuations are considered. Public revenues paid for roughly 9 percent of all motor vehicle crash costs, costing taxpayers $30 billion in 2019, equal to $230 in added taxes for every household in the United States. Alcohol-involved crashes accounted for $69 billion or 20 percent of all economic costs. Alcohol was the cause of the crash in roughly 82 percent of these cases, causing $57 billion in costs. Distracted driving crashes cost $98 billion.
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