In this fact sheet, the overview of 2014 data is presented as follows: * Overview * Trends: 2005 to 2014 * Economic Cost.Motor vehicle travel is a major means of transportation in the United States, providing an unparalleled degree of mobility. Yet for all its advantages, motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death for age 11 and every age 16 to 24 in 2014. The mission of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is to reduce deaths, injuries, and economic losses from motor vehicle crashes. The number of police-reported motor vehicle crashes, by crash severity, is presented in Table 1 for the last 10 years. A downward trend is most pronounced with respect to crashes of the highest severity — fatal crashes declined by 24 percent over the past decade. However, the total number of police-reported traffic crashes increased from 2011 to 2012, from 2012 to 2013, and by 6.6 percent from 2013 to 2014. This latest increase is driven by the 7.9-percent increase in property-damage-only crashes — crashes in which there were no injuries to occupants or non-occupants during the crash. The number of non-fatal-injury crashes increased from 2013 to 2014, by 3.6 percent. (Author/publisher)
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