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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Accid Anal Prev. 2012 Oct 22;50:1244–1251. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2012.09.025

Table 4.

Traffic injury and death statistics for counties with available data (Goldstein et al., 2011).

Counties
in US
Counties
with data
A: Deaths
recorded
B: Injuries
recorded
C: Injuries
Predicted
(Model 1)
D: Injuries
Predicted
(Model 2)
Observed to
predicted mortality
(A/B) / (A/D)
Total 3,142 1,752 26,024 1,822,417 1,564,884 1,588,167 0.87
RUCC
    1 414 236 10,560 984,437 792,973 763,678 0.78
    2 325 189 5,011 373,409 315,420 300,885 0.81
    3 351 200 3,048 189,722 195,378 185,445 0.98
    4 218 134 1,983 96,011 83,052 97,775 1.02
    5 105 57 482 24,563 22,315 26,209 1.07
    6 609 341 2,515 83,747 89,568 117,110 1.40
    7 450 254 1,266 42,780 39,809 51,922 1.21
    8 235 131 519 12,864 12,415 21,342 1.66
    9 435 210 640 14,884 13,954 23,801 1.60

RUCC = Rural-Urban Continuum Code (1=most urban, 9=most rural).