Motor-vehicle Safety : a 20th Century Public Health Achievement

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.)Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention.
• Description:
  The reduction of the rate of death attributable to motor-vehicle crashes in the United States represents the successful public health response to a great technologic advance of the 20th century-the motorization of America. Six times as many people drive today as in 1925, and the number of motor vehicles in the country has increased 11-fold since then to approximately 215 million. The number of miles traveled in motor vehicles is 10 times higher than in the mid-1920s. Despite this steep increase in motor-vehicle travel, the annual death rate has declined from 18 per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in 1925 to 1.7 per 100 million VMT in 1997-a 90% decrease.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Traffic/Prevention & Control Automobiles CDC--History History, 20th Century Public Health/History Safety
• Source:
  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1999 May 14;48(18):369-74.
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  Achievements in public health, 1900-1999
• Genre:
  Historical Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  6 pdf pages
• Volume:
  48
• Issue:
  18
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/107666/cdc_107666_DS1.pdf
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