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Early Estimates of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities and Fatality Rate by Sub-Categories in 2024
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently issued a projection report of traffic fatalities and the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for 2024 (Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities in 2024, Report No. DOT HS 813 710). That report shows an estimated 39,345 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2024, a decrease of about 3.8 percent as compared to 40,901 fatalities reported in 2023. The 2024 estimated fatality rate is 1.20 fatalities per 100 million VMT, down from the reported rate of 1.26 fatalities per 100 million VMT in 2023. This NHTSA report is being issued after conducting a special analysis of the fatalities and the fatality rates per 100 million VMT by key sub-categories in 2024. The analysis is based on ratio-adjusted estimates of 2024 fatal crash data coded thus far into NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), as described in the Data and Methodology section.
Read the full report here.