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National Data

Healthy People 2010 identifies national health objectives for the year 2010, including motor vehicle safety objectives.

Data 2010 finds the latest data for each objective.

Examples of traffic safety data from these sources:
(The objective number, e.g., 15-04, has two components. The first number refers to one of 28 Healthy People chapters or "focus areas" and the second refers to a specific objective within the focus area.)

Measure	Population	Recent Data† (year)	Goals for 2010‡	Obj#

Motor Vehicle Deaths and Injuries:
Motor vehicle crash deaths per 100,000 population	All	15.2 (2002)	9.2	15-15a
	American Indian or Alaskan Native	28.1 (2002)
	Males	21.3 (2002)
	Less than high school education	25.4 (2002)
Nonfatal motor vehicle crash injuries per 100,000 population	All	1,065 (2001)	933	15-17
Pedestrian Deaths and Injuries:
Pedestrian deaths on public roads per 100,000 population	All	1.7 (2001)	1	15-16
	Males	2.4 (2001)
	Age 70 or over	2.7 (2001)
Nonfatal pedestrian injuries on public roads per 100,000 population	All	28 (2001)	19	15-18
	Aged 5-9 Years	57 (2001)
State and Local Efforts:
Proportion of the population that uses safety belts	All	75% (2002)	92%	15-19
Number jurisdictions with a graduated driver licensing model law	50 states and the District of Columbia	NA	50 states and D.C.	15-22
Number jurisdictions with license revocation laws for intoxicated drivers	50 states and the District of Columbia	NA	50 states and D.C.	26-24

†Recent data taken from Data 2010.
‡2010 goals taken from Healthy People 2010.

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State Data

Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) creates customized state or national reports based on any of dozens of variables, such as number of fatalities in crash and previous DWI convictions. It is administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's National Center for Statistics and Analysis.

Also see the NHTSA data page for prepared data reports on topics ranging from safety belt use to the economic toll of motor vehicle crashes.

	Example of FARS data:
	On New Year's Day, 2003, there were 10 fatal motor vehicle crashes in Florida.

CDC's WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) provides state and nationalal data related to fatal and nonfatal motor vehicle injuries.

	Example of WISQARS Data:
	In 2002, there were 116,219 years of potential life lost (YPLL) before age 65 due to motor vehicle injuries in Texas, with 7,393 YPLL before age 65 among motorcyclists alone.

CDC's Injury Maps allow users to create county, state, or national maps showing the geographic distribution of motor vehicle injury mortalities and eight other leading causes of injury mortality.

	Example of data from an Illinois injury map:
	During the period 1989-1998, there were an average of 1,623 motor vehicle deaths each year in Illinois, or an average of 13.8/100,000 population. Only 4 Illinois counties experienced motor vehicle fatality rates at or above the 75th national percentile for the period.

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