For the purpose of this fact sheet, passenger vehicles are motor vehicles weighing less than 10,000 pounds and include passenger cars and light trucks (sport utility vehicles (SUVs), pickup trucks, vans, and other light trucks). In this fact sheet, the 2013 passenger vehicle information is presented in the following order: * Overview, * Registration Data Changes, * Fatalities and Fatality Rates, * Injured and Injury Rates, * Restraint Use, * Ejection, * Rollover Crashes, * Two-Vehicle Crashes Between a Passenger Car and a Light Truck, * Alcohol, * Occupant Fatalities by State, and * Appendix. Key Findings: • In 2013, there were 21,132 passenger vehicle occupants who lost their lives in motor vehicle traffic crashes and an estimated 2.05 million passenger vehicle occupants who were injured. • Among the passenger vehicle occupants killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2013, about 57 percent were passenger car occupants and 43 percent were lighttruck occupants. • Passenger vehicles made up 93 percent of registered vehicles and accounted for nearly 90 percent of total vehicle miles traveled in 2013. There were 44,811 vehicles involved in fatal crashes in 2013, of which 77 percent (34,691) were passenger vehicles. • Fatality rates per 100,000 registered vehicles from 2012 to 2013 decreased for both passenger cars and light trucks (5% and 4%, respectively). Among lighttruck categories, fatality rates decreased for SUVs and pickup trucks (6% and 4%, respectively). However, fatality rates for vans had almost no change. • In fatal crashes in 2013, some 79 percent of passenger vehicle occupants who were totally ejected from vehicles were killed. • Among passenger vehicle occupants killed in 2013, the percentage of fatalities in rollover crashes was highest for SUVs (51%), followed by pickup trucks (46%), vans (29%), and passenger cars (24%). • In two-vehicle crashes between one passenger car and one light truck in 2013, an occupant was killed in a passenger car 18 times more frequently than in a light truck when the front of a light truck hit the side of a passenger car. • Drivers of pickup trucks had the highest percentage of alcohol impairment in fatal crashes (24%) compared to other passenger vehicle drivers (23% for passenger cars, 21% for SUVs, and 12% for vans) in 2013. (Author/publisher)
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