over 100,000 a year
Pennsylvania has the highest number of fatal accidents. Wrong way and head on accidents caused 400 deaths in 2011 and 60% of those were drunk drivers.
In total, they were 1,324 fatal car accidents in the state of Pennsylvania in the year of 2010. The total number of accidents was well over the 150,000 mark.
38% of all fatal accidents in California are type of crash
50%
According to the Center for Disease Control in the year 2000 (the year with most complete data available) there have been 776 fatal and 23,237 nonfatal firearm accidents. This gives us a total of 24,013. CDC has no data on non-fatal accidents in other years, but the number of fatal firearm accidents declined to 642 in 2006.
According to the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration, in 2008 the District of Columbia had the lowest amount of reported FATAL accidents (34). Alaska had 62 reported fatal car accidents and Rhode Island had 65 reported fatal car accidents. 2007 Data shows the Rate of Fatal Accidents per 100,000 registered vehicles was lowest in MA (7.57) and then RI (8.33)
35 percent of fatal crashes involve alcohol use.
Severity Index= no. of fatal accidents / total no. of injury accidents
This is going to take a lot of calculation. There were 159 fatalities in Maine in 2009, the last year information is available for, but the number of all accidents is not available. We do have the number of accidents (10.8 million) and number of fatalities (35,900) nationwide, which means about .33% of accidents are fatal. If we apply that percentage to the Maine fatalities, we get 48,181 accidents per year, or 132 accidents per day.
45000
Most fatal car accidents happen on a Saturday.
Severity Index= no. of fatal accidents / total no. of injury accidents