Table 1.
Year | Vehicle miles traveled (billion miles) | Total fatality | Rate of total fatality per billion VMTa | Fatalities associated with adverse weather conditions | Rate of fatality associated with adverse weather per billion VMTa | Proportion of fatalities associated with adverse weather | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rain or Wet | Snow or Icy | ||||||
1994 | 2358 | 40716 | 17.3 | 5590 | 1562 | 3.0 | 17.6 |
1995 | 2423 | 41817 | 17.3 | 5648 | 1760 | 3.1 | 17.7 |
1996 | 2482 | 42065 | 16.9 | 5712 | 2006 | 3.1 | 18.3 |
1997 | 2560 | 42013 | 16.4 | 5992 | 1804 | 3.0 | 18.6 |
1998 | 2625 | 41501 | 15.8 | 5719 | 1198 | 2.6 | 16.7 |
1999 | 2679 | 41717 | 15.6 | 4924 | 1246 | 2.3 | 14.8 |
2000 | 2747 | 41945 | 15.3 | 5014 | 1718 | 2.5 | 16.0 |
2001 | 2796 | 42196 | 15.1 | 5261 | 1304 | 2.3 | 15.6 |
2002 | 2856 | 43005 | 15.1 | 5566 | 1395 | 2.4 | 16.2 |
2003 | 2890 | 42884 | 14.8 | 5738 | 1655 | 2.6 | 17.2 |
2004 | 2965 | 42836 | 14.4 | 5781 | 1478 | 2.4 | 16.9 |
2005 | 2989 | 43510 | 14.6 | 5347 | 1421 | 2.3 | 15.6 |
2006 | 3014 | 42708 | 14.2 | 4947 | 987 | 2.0 | 13.9 |
2007 | 3031 | 41259 | 13.6 | 4522 | 1509 | 2.0 | 14.6 |
2008 | 2977 | 37423 | 12.6 | 4438 | 1549 | 2.0 | 16.0 |
2009 | 2957 | 33883 | 11.5 | 4326 | 1189 | 1.9 | 16.3 |
2010 | 2967 | 32999 | 11.1 | 3553 | 1204 | 1.6 | 14.4 |
2011 | 2946 | 32479 | 11.0 | 3450 | 1084 | 1.5 | 14.0 |
2012 | 2969 | 33561 | 11.3 | 3666 | 735 | 1.5 | 13.1 |
aVMT data is annual and could not be separated into VMT traveled in adverse and non-adverse weather