Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths: How Is the U.S. Doing?: CDC Vital Signs: 07/06/2016

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.)
• Description:
  Reducing motor vehicle crash deaths was one of the great public health achievements of the 20th century for the US. However, more than 32,000 people are killed and 2 million are injured each year from motor vehicle crashes. In 2013, the US crash death rate was more than twice the average of other high-income countries. In the US, front seat belt use was lower than in most other comparison countries. One in 3 crash deaths in the US involved drunk driving, and almost 1 in 3 involved speeding. Lower death rates in other high-income countries and a high percentage of risk factors in the US suggest that we can make more progress in reducing crash deaths.
  
  2016-07-vitalsigns.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents, Traffic/mortality Automobile Driving Death
• Series:
  Vital Signs
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  4 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/158918/cdc_158918_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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