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Traffic SafeTy facTS Research Note DOT HS 811 363 Summary of Statistical Findings August 2010 Highlights of 2009 Motor Vehicle crashes In 2009, 33,808 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the total decline of 3,615). Motorcyclist fatalities now account the United States – the lowest number of deaths since 1950 for 13 percent of total fatalities. Passenger car occupant fatali- (33,186 fatalities in 1950). This was a 9.7-percent decline in ties declined for the seventh consecutive year, and are at their the number of people killed, from 37,423 in 2008 to 33,808, lowest level since NHTSA began collecting fatality crash data according to NHTSA’s 2009 Fatality Analysis Reporting in 1975. Light-truck occupant fatalities dropped for the fourth System (FARS) (see Figure 1). Fatalities declined among all consecutive year, and are at their lowest level since 1997. The categories of vehicle occupants and nonoccupants as shown largest percentage reduction of people killed was among large- in Table 1 below. Motorcyclist fatalities broke the continuous truck occupants (26%) compared to any other vehicle category, 11-year increase with a large decline of 850 fatalities (24% of followed by motorcyclists with a 16-percent reduction. Figure 1 Fatalities and Fatality Rate per 100M VMT by Year 60,000 8 7 50,000