Passenger vehicles are defined as motor vehicles weighing less than 10,000 pounds and include passenger cars and light trucks (SUVs, pickup trucks, vans, and other light trucks). In this 2014 fact sheet, the information on passenger vehicles is presented as follows: * Overview; * Registration Data Changes; * Fatalities and Fatality Rates; * Injured and Injury Rates; * Restraint Use; * Ejection; * Rollover Crashes; * Two-Vehicle Crashes Between a Passenger Car and a Light Truck; * Alcohol; * Occupant Fatalities by State; * Appendix. In 2014: * There were 21,022 passenger vehicle occupants who lost their lives in traffic crashes and an estimated 2.07 million passenger vehicle occupants who were injured. * Passenger vehicles made up 93 percent of registered vehicles and accounted for nearly 90 percent of total vehicle miles travelled (VMT). * There were an estimated 10,579,000 vehicles involved in police-reported traffic crashes; 96 percent (10,165,000) were passenger vehicles. * There were 44,820 vehicles involved in fatal crashes, of which 78 percent (34,984) were passenger vehicles. (Author/publisher)
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