Abstract
A passenger vehicle is a motor vehicle weighing less than 10,000 pounds and includes passenger cars and light trucks (pickup trucks, vans, SUVs, and other light trucks). Passenger vehicles make up over 90 percent of registered vehicles, and account for nearly 90 percent of total vehicle miles traveled (VMT). In 2010 there were an estimated 9,442,000 vehicles involved in police-reported crashes, 97 percent (9,125,000) of which were passenger vehicles. There were 44,712 vehicles involved in fatal crashes, of which 79 percent (35,146) were passenger vehicles. More than 22,000 passenger vehicle occupants lost their lives in traffic crashes in 2010, and an estimated 1.99 million were injured. (Author/publisher)