Did You Know?
• More than 2.3 million adult drivers and passengers were treated in emergency departments as the result of being
injured in motor vehicle crashes in 2009.
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• One pedestrian is killed in a traffic crash every 113 minutes and injured every eight minutes. Pedestrians are 1.5
times more likely than car passengers to be killed in a motor vehicle crash.
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• Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, accounting for more than one in three deaths in
this age group.
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• Every day, more than 16 people are killed and more than 1,300 people are injured in car crashes involving a distracted
driver.
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• Child safety seats reduce the risk of death in cars by 71% for infants and by 54% for toddlers’ ages one to four.
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• Alcohol-impairment—either for the driver or for the pedestrian—was reported in 48% of the traffic crashes that
resulted in pedestrian death in 2008.
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• Seatbelt use reduces serious injuries and deaths in car crashes by 50%.
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• A speed limit of 40 mph or below reduces the risk of a crash by 4 times that of a crash on a road with a speed limit of
65 mph or greater.
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• If every state had strong graduated drivers licensing (GDL) programs to help new drivers gain skills under low risk
conditions, 175 lives would be saved and about 350,000 injuries prevented each year.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Vital signs: Non-fatal, Motor Vehicle-occupant Injuries (2009) and seat belt use (2008) among adults- united States. MMWR. (2011) Jan 7; 59(51):1681-6.
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u.S. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Traffic Safety Facts: Pedestrians. (2004). Available at: https://www.nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/809913.PDF.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Web-based injury statistics query and reporting system (WISQARS). (2010). Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars.
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u.S. Department of Transportation. Statistics and Facts about Distracted Driving. (2010). Available at: https://www.distraction.gov/stats-and-facts.
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u.S. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Traffic Safety Facts: Children. (2008). Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/MotorVehicleSafety/Child_Passenger_safety/CPS-Factsheet.html.
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u.S. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Traffic Safety Facts 2008: Pedestrians. Available at: https://www.nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811163.PDF.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services. Adult Seat Belt use in the uS: Latest Findings. (2011). Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/VitalSigns/seatbeltuse/latestfindings.html.
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u.S. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Traffic Safety Facts: Available at: https://www.nhtsa.gov.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Policy Impact: Teen Driver Safety. (2010). Available at: https://cdc.gov/MotorVehicleSafety/pdf/PolicyImpact-TeenDriverSafety-a.pdf
Source: https://www.nphw.org/nphw11/pdf/2011NPHW_toolkit.pdf
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