Car Accident Statistics - St. Louis, MO
Information available on the FARS website. FARS is the Federal Analysis Reporting System located at http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
After reading through the car accident statistics on the FARS site I noticed that fatal crashes appear to be at their lowest level in over 10 years. Read through this blog entry to discover more accident statistics.
Motorcycles in fatal crashes had the highest proportion of collisions with fixed objects (25.2 percent), and large trucks in fatal crashes had the lowest proportion (3.5 percent).[Vehicles 2007]
Half of all fatal crashes in 2007 occurred on roads with posted speed limits of 55 mph or more, as compared with 23 percent of injury and property-damage-only crashes.
[Crashes 2007]
The pedestrian fatality rate per 100,000 population was 1.54 for the Nation. The District of Columbia had the highest rate (3.23), and Wyoming, with two pedestrian fatalities, had the lowest rate (0.38).
[States 2007]
In 2008 Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes
Fatal Crashes 34,017
Drivers 19,220
Passengers 7,397
Unknown 72
Sub Total1 26,689
Motorcyclists 5,290
Nonmotorist
Pedestrians 4,378
Pedalcyclists 716
Other/ Unknown 188
Sub Total2 5,282
Total** 37,261
