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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Safety Res. 2013 Dec 24;48:95–101. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2013.12.005

Table 1.

Distribution of drivers by race/ethnicity for exposed and fatally injured drivers in single-vehicle, two-vehicle, and all-vehicle crashes

Race and Ethnicity Exposure
(Controls)
Crashes (Cases)
Single
Vehicle
Two
Vehicles
All
Vehicles
Latino 22.5% 11.7% 22.5% 14.9%
Non-Latino African-American 18.3% 13.3% 16.4% 14.1%
Non-Latino White 46.7% 73.0% 57.2% 68.4%
Non-Latino Other 12.4% 2.1% 3.9% 2.7%
Total n 6659 2166 711 3009
% 100 100 100 100

Percentages in controls are weighted according to the sampling weights from 2007 NRS.

Exposure: Self-reported or observed race/ethnicity from 2007 NRS.

Crashes: Recorded race/ethnicity from 2006-07 FARS (U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System).

The driver group “All vehicles” includes fatal crashes with any number of vehicles.