In 2013, there were an estimated 5,687,000 police-reported traffic crashes, in which 32,719 people were killed and an estimated 2,313,000 people were injured. An average of 90 people died each day in motor vehicle crashes in 2013, one fatality every 16 minutes. There were 10,076 alcohol-impaired-driving fatalities representing an average of one alcohol-impaired-driving fatality every 52 minutes. Thirty-four percent of all motorcycle riders involved in fatal crashes were speeding, the highest of any vehicle type. NHTSA estimates that 12,584 lives were saved in 2013 by the use of seat belts. On average, a pedestrian is killed in a motor vehicle crash every 111 minutes, and one is injured about every 8 minutes. Drivers 15 to 20 years old made up 9 percent of drivers in fatal crashes, and 13 percent of those in all police-reported crashes. Eight percent of the U.S. population is in this age group. Of the 200 children 14 and younger who died in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes, 61 percent were occupants of vehicles where the drivers had a blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) of .08 g/dL or higher. In 2013, 14 percent of the U.S. population was 65 or older. They accounted for 17 percent of all those killed and 10 percent of all those injured in traffic crashes. (Author/publisher)
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