Based on the Non-Traffic Surveillance (NTS) system, an average of 1,898 people were killed each year in non-traffic motor vehicle crashes during the 3-year period 2012 to 2014. About a third (34%) of those people killed were non-occupants such as pedestrians and bicyclists. Additionally, on an average, 92,000 people were injured in these crashes each year, of which a third (33%) were non-occupants. Non-traffic motor vehicle crashes are a class of crashes that occur off the public traffic ways. These crashes, subsequently referred to as “non-traffic crashes,” are mostly single-vehicle crashes on private roads, two-vehicle crashes in parking facilities, or collisions with pedestrians in driveways. In addition, there are non-traffic incidents such as a vehicle falling on a person underneath or an unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning inside the vehicle. Both non-traffic crashes and non-traffic incidents have the potential to cause fatalities or injuries to people. Nevertheless, the information on either of these was not available until 2007, when Congress required the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to start collecting and maintaining information pertinent to these events. Complying with the directive, NHTSA designed and implemented a virtual data collection system, Non-Traffic Surveillance (NTS), previously called Not-in-Traffic Surveillance, to provide counts and details of fatalities and injuries to people involved in non-traffic crashes and non-traffic incidents. This issue of Crash•Stats focuses only on non-traffic crashes and presents some salient statistics about occupants and non-occupants killed and injured in such crashes from 2012 to 2014. The statistics reported in this summary are based on the NTS data from 2012 to 2014. Since a complete record of all non-traffic crash fatalities and injuries from States and police jurisdictions is not available, adjusted weights have been used to obtain national estimates. The background and details about collection of NTS data and the adjustment of weights adopted from the General Estimates System (GES) are provided in the Appendix. (Author/publisher)
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