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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Traffic Inj Prev. 2019 Apr 15;20(3):276–281. doi: 10.1080/15389588.2019.1576036

Table 4.

Ratio of unspecified road user type to occupant, NVSS, United States, 1999–2015.

NVSS MVC occupants NVSS MVC unspecified Ratio NVSS unspecified/NVSS occupant
Place of death
 Medical facility 104,440 113,118 1.08
 Decedent’s home 2,110 2,314 1.10
 Other 146,483 132,157 0.90
 Unknown 1,354 2,023 1.49
State death investigation system
 Centralized state medical examiner 39,540 42,121 1.06
 County-based mixture of medical examiner and coroner 124,989 119,836 0.96
 County/district-based coroner 40,863 49,381 1.21
 County/district-based medical examiner 48,995 38,274 0.78
State medical examiner
 Yes 84,751 86,214 1.02
 No 169,636 163,398 0.96
Autopsy status (2003–2015)
 Not performed 84,291 96,878 1.15
 Performed 80,288 80,145 1.00
 Unknown 12,219 13,178 1.08