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.
[url=http://www.cdc.gov/injury/pressroom/index.html]New CDC Study Finds Annual Cost of Motor Vehicle Crashes Exceeds $99 Billion[/url]
[list]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[/list]
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.
[url=http://www.cdc.gov/injury/pdfs/cost-MV-a.pdf]Save Lives, Save Dollars—Prevent Motor Vehicle Related Injuries[/url] information sheet provides information about cost-effective policies to:
[list]Improve child passenger safety.
Improve teen driver safety.
Reduce alcohol-impaired driving.
Increase safety belt use.[/list]