Death and Injuries from Traffic Collisions

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics for 2006 show that automobiles were the number three killer in the United States (in terms of years of life lost if they had not died), behind heart disease and cancer. Automobile collisions were the leading cause of death among persons 4 to 34 years of age.

The number of people who die each year in automobile collisions is almost double the number of people killed in accidents in the home. And ten times greater than the number of people killed in all other forms of transportation combined, such as plane crashes and train and bus wrecks.