Motor Vehicle Crashes cost $99 Billion per year

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Motor Vehicle Crashes cost $99 Billion per year

by brian » Mon Aug 30, 2010 11:52 am

New CDC Study Finds Annual Cost of Motor Vehicle Crashes Exceeds $99 Billion
  • Every 12 minutes, someone dies in a car crash on U.S. roads.
    Every 10 seconds, someone is injured and taken to an emergency department
In a one-year period, the cost of medical care and productivity losses associated with injuries from motor vehicle crashes exceeded $99 billion - with the cost of direct medical care accounting for $17 billion, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The total annual cost amounts to nearly $500 for each licensed driver in the United States, said the study in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention. See the CDC press release.
The one-year costs of fatal and non-fatal crash-related injuries totaled $70 billion (71 percent of total costs) for people riding in motor vehicles, such as cars and light trucks, $12 billion for motorcyclists, $10 billion for pedestrians, and $5 billion for bicyclists, the study said.
Save Lives, Save Dollars—Prevent Motor Vehicle Related Injuries information sheet provides information about cost-effective policies to:
  • Improve child passenger safety.
    Improve teen driver safety.
    Reduce alcohol-impaired driving.
    Increase safety belt use.

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