NHTSA's National Centre for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) recently completed a second study of data from the National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS) to obtain an estimate of the number of persons killed as a result of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning by exhaust gases of motor vehicles. This note updates the results of the study done in 1996 to assess the extent of fatalities associated with CO poisoning from motor vehicles using the NCHS data for the 1993 calendar year. This study focuses on the extent to which moving, as opposed to stationary, motor vehicles are involved in CO poisoning deaths. In addition, the study examined the proportion of accidental, i.e., unintentional CO deaths; the vehicle location for accidental CO fatalities involving stationary vehicles, and the season of the year in which the greatest proportion of accidental CO deaths occur. (A)
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