Early Assessment estimates based on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System and National Automotive Sampling System General Estimates System revealed that approximately 41,730 persons were killed and 3,031,000 persons injured on the nation's public roads and highways in the year 2001. This report contains these and other Early Assessment estimates and compares them with estimates in the 2000 Annual Files. Early Assessment estimates are based on data from sources, which are incomplete or preliminary at this time. Early Assessment estimates for 2001 will be superceded during the summer of 2002 by fatality counts and estimates of those injured from the completed National Center for Statistics and Analysis Annual Report Files and revised exposure data.
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