NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) recently completed a study of data on the causes of death for all persons, by age and sex, which occurred in the U.S. in 1997. The purpose of this study is to examine the status of motor vehicle traffic crashes as a leading cause of death. The data on the causes of death for 1997, the latest year for which such data are available, were obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). NCHS obtains these data from a census of death certificates furnished to the NCHS by the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The NCHS data for 1997 were studied to determine where deaths related to traffic crashes ranked as a cause of death for all ages, for males and females, and for various ethnic groups. The following statistics are based upon the NCHS data on causes of death for calendar year 1997. The number of deaths associated with motor vehicle crashes reported by NCHS are slightly greater than that reported by NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), due to differences in reporting criteria. (Author/publisher)
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