-Caveat Lector- >From http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/af78.htm Accident Facts® ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Motor Vehicle, 1997 Between 1912 and 1997, motor-vehicle deaths per 10,000 registered vehicles were reduced 94%, from 33 to about 2. In 1912, there were 3,100 fatalities when the number of registered vehicles totaled only 950,000. In 1997, there were 43,200 fatalities, but registrations soared to more than 214 million. While mileage data were not available in 1912, the 1997 mileage death rate of 1.71 per 100,000,000 vehicle miles was the lowest rate on record. Disabling injuries in motor-vehicle accidents totaled 2,300,000 in 1997, and total motor-vehicle costs were estimated at $200.3 billion. Costs include wage and productivity losses, medical expenses, administrative expenses, motor-vehicle property damage, and employer costs. Motor-vehicle deaths decreased less than one-half percent from 1996 to 1997, the second consecutive decrease following three years of increases. Mileage and the number of registered vehicles increased 2%, while the population increased 1%. As a result, the mileage and registration death rates decreased 2% from 1996 to 1997, while the population death rate decreased 1%. Compared with 1987, 1997 motor-vehicle deaths decreased by about 11%. However, mileage, registration, and population death rates were all sharply lower in 1997 compared with 1987 (see corresponding chart). Deaths 43,200 Disabling injuries 2,300,000 Cost $200.3 billion Motor-vehicle mileage 2,531 billion Registered vehicles in the United States 214,500,000 Licensed drivers in the United States 181,700,000 Death rate per 100,000,000 vehicle miles 1.71 Death rate per 10,000 registered vehicles 2.01 Death rate per 100,000 population 16.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Accident and Vehicle Totals, 1997 Type of Accident Number of Accidents Drivers (Vehicles) Involved Fatal 38,200 59,700 Disabling injury 1,500,000 2,700,000 Property damage 12,300,000 21,100,000 and nondisabling injurya Total (rounded) 13,800,000 23,900,000 aEstimating procedures for these figures were revised beginning with the 1990 edition. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Table of Contents | Menu | Order Form | Statistics Top Page | Comments ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- September 25, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From USAToday 04/16/98- Updated 05:10 PM ET U.S. leads richest nations in gun deaths ATLANTA - The United States has by far the highest rate of gun deaths - murders, suicides and accidents - among the world's 36 richest nations, a government study found. The U.S. rate for gun deaths in 1994 was 14.24 per 100,000 people. Japan had the lowest rate, at .05 per 100,000. The study, done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the first comprehensive international look at gun-related deaths. It was published Thursday in the International Journal of Epidemiology. The CDC would not speculate why the death rates varied, but other researchers said easy access to guns and society's acceptance of violence are part of the problem in the United States. ''If you have a country saturated with guns - available to people when they are intoxicated, angry or depressed - it's not unusual guns will be used more often,'' said Dr. Rebecca Peters, a Johns Hopkins University fellow specializing in gun violence. ''This has to be treated as a public health emergency.'' The National Rifle Association called the study shoddy because it failed to examine all causes of violent deaths. ''What this shows is the CDC is after guns. They aren't concerned with violence. It's pretending that no homicide exists unless it's related to guns,'' said Dr. Paul Blackman, a research coordinator for the NRA in Fairfax, Va. The study used 1994 statistics supplied by the 36 countries. Of the 88,649 gun deaths reported by all the countries, the United States accounted for 45 percent, said Dr. Etienne Krug, a CDC researcher and co-author of the article. ''I was surprised by the magnitude of the difference between the U.S. and other countries,'' Krug said. Brazil ranked second with 12.95 deaths per 100,000, followed by Mexico with 12.69, Estonia with 12.26 and Argentina with 8.93. Japan, where very few people own guns, averages 124 gun-related attacks a year, and less than 1% end in death. Police often raid the homes of those suspected of having weapons. Also at the bottom of the list were South Korea with .12 per 100,000 people, followed by Hong Kong with .14, Mauritius with .19, Singapore with .21, Taiwan with .37 and England and Wales with .41. The study found that gun-related deaths were five to six times higher in the Americas than in Europe or Australia and New Zealand and 95 times higher than in Asia. By The Associated Press ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From http://www.health.su.oz.au/cgc/fp_3_1_1.htm USA GUN DEATHS The USA has a population of some 254 million. >From 1968 to 1991, deaths due to motor vehicles in the USA have declined by 21% (from 54,842 to 43,536) while during the same period deaths due to firearms increased by 60% (from 23,875 to 38,317). [Source: Deaths resulting from firearm and motorvehiclerelated injuries United States, 19681991. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, US Centres for Disease Control, 1994; 43:3742.] In 1991 firearms were used in 60.1% of all suicides and 67.8% of all homicides in the USA. There were 38,317 deaths due to firearms. 48.3% of these deaths were suicides, 46.9% were homicides, and the remainder were unintentional or of uncertain intent. Firearmrelated deaths were the fourth leading cause of yearsofpotentiallifelost before age 65. [Source: Firearmrelated years of potential life lost before age 65 yearsUnited States, 19801991. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, US Centres for Disease Control, 1994; 43:60911.] There were 26,513 homicide victims in the USA in 1991. 13,122 (49%) were males aged 1534 years. This is the second leading cause of death among males in the age group and accounted for 18% of those deaths. From 1985 to 1991, the homicide rate for males age 1519 rose from 13 to 33 per 100,000. The only 5year age group with a higher rate is males aged 2024, who had a rate of 41.2 in 1991. [Source: Homicides among 1519yearold males United States, 1963 1991.Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, US Centres for Disease Control, 1994; 43:7257.] An estimated 99,025 persons were treated for nonfatal firearmrelated injuries in US hospital emergency departments in 1992. The rate of nonfatal firearmrelated injuries treated was 2.6 times the national rate of fatal firearmrelated injuries for 1992. [Source: Annest JL, Mercy JA, Gibson DR, Ryan GW. National estimates of nonfatal firearmrelated injuries: beyond the tip of the iceberg. JAMA 1995; 273:174954.] In summary, the USA has nearly 14 times our population. It has 64 times our total gun deaths, and 211 times our gun homicide rate. In the other direction we have Japan with the world's toughest gun laws. Japan has just over seven times our population, but in 1992, enjoying the world's lowest homicide rate, just 60 people were murdered with guns -- nearly 30% less than Australia's gun murder rate. AUSTRALIA USA JAPAN Population 18,173,600(1) 254,250,000(2) 133,831,000(3) Total annual 596(4) 38,317(5) not obtained gun deaths Total gun homicides 85(4) 17,971(5) 60(6) References 1. Australian Bureau of Statistics Dec 1995 2. World Bank World Development Report 1992: population estimate for 1991 3. World Bank World Development Report 1992: population estimate for 1992 4. Average for four years 1990-2,1994. Data from Australian Bureau of Statistics 5. Deaths resulting from firearm and motor vehicle related injuries United States, 19681991. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, US Centres for Disease Control, 1994; 43:3742. 6. A Report for Congress: Firearms Regulation: Comparative Overviews of Selected Foreign Nations, prepared by the Law Library staff of the Law Library of Congress, USA August 1994. 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