Age of Driver and Number in Accidents statistics


	1996				1996			1996	1998				1998			1998

					Drivers in accidents								Drivers in accidents

Age group	Number	Percent					Per number of		Number	Percent	Fatal		All		Per number of
	licensed	licensed	Fatal		All		drivers		licensed	licensed					drivers
									(1,000)		Number	Percent	Number	Percent
			Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Fatal ¹	All ²			(1,000)		(1,000)		Fatal ¹	All ²

Total	177,820,000	100.0	57,400	100.0	18,900,000	100.0	32	11	185,450	100.0	56,100	100.0	21,300	100.0	30	11

Under 16 years old	61,000	(Z)	500	0.9	90,000	0.5	(³)	(³)	31	(Z)	500	0.9	120	0.6	(³)	(³)
16 years old	1,578,000	0.9	1,200	2.1	580,000	3.1	76	37	1,708	0.9	1,200	2.1	620	2.9	70	36
17 years old	2,195,000	1.2	1,600	2.8	670,000	3.5	73	31	2,436	1.3	1,200	2.1	720	3.4	49	30
18 years old	2,432,000	1.4	1,900	3.3	710,000	3.8	78	29	2,868	1.5	1,900	3.4	780	3.7	66	27
19 years old	2,653,000	1.5	1,800	3.1	670,000	3.5	68	25	2,941	1.6	1,600	2.9	700	3.3	54	24

19 years old and under	8,919,000	5.0	7,000	12.2	2,720,000	14.4	78	30	9,984	5.4	6,400	11.4	2,940	13.8	64	29
20 years old	2,828,000	1.6	1,800	3.1	600,000	3.2	64	21	3,048	1.6	1,500	2.7	630	3.0	49	21
21 years old	2,864,000	1.6	1,900	3.3	590,000	3.1	66	21	3,093	1.7	1,500	2.7	600	2.8	48	19
22 years old	2,880,000	1.6	1,800	3.1	560,000	3.0	63	19	3,022	1.6	1,500	2.7	550	2.6	50	18
23 years old	3,065,000	1.7	1,600	2.8	540,000	2.9	52	18	3,209	1.7	1,300	2.3	520	2.4	41	16
24 years old	3,625,000	2.0	1,600	2.8	540,000	2.9	44	15	3,157	1.7	1,300	2.3	500	2.3	41	16

20 to 24 years old	15,262,000	8.6	8,700	15.2	2,830,000	15.0	57	19	15,529	8.4	7,100	12.7	2,800	13.1	46	18
25 to 34 years old	37,781,000	21.2	13,000	22.6	4,600,000	24.3	34	12	37,265	20.1	11,900	21.2	4,900	23.0	32	13
35 to 44 years old	40,415,000	22.7	11,700	20.4	3,840,000	20.3	29	10	41,857	22.6	11,300	20.1	4,440	20.8	27	11
45 to 54 years old	30,928,000	17.4	7,100	12.4	2,360,000	12.5	23	8	33,662	18.2	7,700	13.7	2,940	13.8	23	9
55 to 64 years old	19,345,000	10.9	4,100	7.1	1,210,000	6.4	21	6	21,337	11.5	4,600	8.2	1,570	7.4	22	7
65 to 74 years old	15,648,000	8.8	3,000	5.2	810,000	4.3	19	5	15,244	8.2	3,600	6.4	1,010	4.7	24	7
75 years old and over	9,522,000	5.4	2,800	4.9	530,000	2.8	29	6	10,570	5.7	3,500	6.2	710	3.3	33	7

Z Less than .05.
1 Per 100,000 licensed drivers.
2 Per 100 licensed drivers.
3 Rates for drivers under age 16 are substantially overstated due to the high proportion of unlicensed drivers involved.

Source: National Safety Council, Itasca, IL, Accident Facts, 1997 edition (copyright).

http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statstop.htm

* Accident is that occurrence in a sequence of events that produces unintended injury, death, or property damage. Accident refers to the event, not the result of the event (see unintentional injury).

Death from accident is a death that occurs within one year of the accident.

Fatal accident is an accident that results in one or more deaths within one year.

Motor vehicle is any mechanically or electrically powered device not operated on rails, upon which or by which any person or property may be transported upon a land highway. The load on a motor vehicle or trailer attached to it, is considered part of the vehicle. Tractors and motorized machinery are included while self-propelled in transit or used for transportation. Nonmotor vehicle is any road vehicle other than a motor vehicle, such as a bicycle or animal-drawn vehicle, except a coaster wagon, child's sled, child's tricycle, child's carriage and similar means of transportation; persons using these latter means of transportation are considered pedestrians.

Motor-vehicle accident is an unstabilized situation that includes at least one harmful event (injury or property damage) involving a motor vehicle in transport (in motion, in readiness for motion, or on a roadway, but not parked in a designated parking area) that does not result from discharge of a firearm or explosive device and does not directly result from a cataclysm. [See Committee on Motor Vehicle Traffic Accident Classification, (1997), Manual on Classification of Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents, ANSI D16.1-1996, Itasca, IL: National Safety Council.]

Motor-vehicle traffic accident is a motor-vehicle accident that occurs on a trafficway-a way or place, any part of which is open to the use of the public for the purposes of vehicular traffic. Motor-vehicle nontraffic accident is any motor-vehicle accident that occurs entirely in any place other than a trafficway.

Nonfatal injury accident is an accident in which at least one person is injured, and no injury results in death.

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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