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  • NCSA Crash*Stats 'Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities for the First Half (January-June) of 2012' (DOT-HS-811-680), This Crash*Stats provides a statistical projection of traffic fatalities for the first half of 2012, which shows that an estimated 16,290 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes. This represents an increase of about 9.0 percent as compared to the estimated 14,950 fatalities that occurred in the first half of 2011.
  • NCSA Research Note: “Distracted Driving 2010” (DOT-HS-811-650), Distracted driving is a behavior dangerous to drivers, passengers, and nonoccupants alike. Distraction is a specific type of inattention that occurs when drivers divert their attention from the driving task to focus on some other activity instead. Nine percent of fatal crashes in 2010 were reported as distraction-affected crashes.
  • NCSA Data Sheet: “Teen Distracted Driver Data” (DOT-HS-811-649), This 2010 Data Sheet provides the most current data on teens and distracted driving. A total of 3,092 persons were killed in distraction-affected crashes in 2010. A total of 307 teens (15 to 19 years old) were killed in distraction-affected crashes in 2010.
  • NCSA Research Note: "National Child Restraint Use Special Study" (DOT-HS-811-679), From June to August of 2011 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration conducted the National Child Restraint Use Special Study (NCRUSS), a sur¬vey of child restraint system (CRS) use. This survey was nationally representative, with data collected at 24 randomly selected geographic areas within the United States. The survey data includes observations of the restraint systems of child passengers from birth to age 8, conducted by certified child passenger safety technicians (CPSTs), as well as associated interview data given by the drivers of these child passengers. In total, 4,167 complete observations (child restraint inspections with driver interviews) were gathered by the research staff. This report gives some of the early findings of this survey. A detailed analysis is currently in progress.
  • NCSA Traffic Safety Facts 2010: "A Compilation of Motor Vehicle Crash Data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates System" (DOT-HS-811-659), The 2010 Traffic Safety Facts annual report is a compilation of motor vehicle traffic crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates System presenting descriptive statistics about traffic crashes of all severities, from those that result in property damage to those that result in the loss of human life.
  • NCSA Publication "2010 Data Summary Booklet" (DOT-HS-811-660), The 2010 “Data Summary Booklet” provides a pocket sized excerpt of the Traffic Safety Facts Annual Report. The tables included in the booklet are a summary of the most asked for data available from FARS and GES.
  • NCSA Crash*Stats "Not-in-Traffic Surveillance — Non-Crash Injuries" (DOT-HS-811-655), This issue of Crash•Stats focuses on updated informa¬tion in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administra¬tion’s Not-in-Traffic Surveillance (NiTS) system regard¬ing injuries involving passenger vehicles that occur in non-crash incidents. As part of the NiTS system, NHTSA has joined with the Consumer Product Safety Commis¬sion (CPSC) to collect information on non-crash inju¬ries involving passenger vehicles that are reported to emergency departments.
  • NCSA 2010 Traffic Safety Fact Sheet "School Transportation-Related Crashes" (DOT-HS-811-618), A school transportation-related crash is a crash which involves, either directly or indirectly, a school bus body vehicle, or a non-school bus functioning as a school bus, transporting children to or from school or school-related activities. Since 2001 there were 363,839 fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes, of those, 1,236 (0.34%) were classified as school transportation-related.
  • NCSA 2010 Traffic Safety Fact Sheet "State Traffic Data" (DOT-HS-811-646), This fact sheet provides data on traffic fatalities for the United States and individually for the 50 States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
  • NCSA Research Note "Prevalence of High BAC in Alcohol-Impaired-Driving Fatal Crashes" (DOT-HS-811-654):, For 70 percent of alcohol-impaired-driving fatali¬ties, defined as those in which at least one driver had a BAC of .08 or higher, at least one driver in the crash had a BAC of .15 grams per deciliter or higher.
  • NCSA’s Traffic Safety Fact Sheet 2010 "Pedestrians" (DOT-HS-811-625), A pedestrian, as defined in this Traffic Safety Fact Sheet, is any person on foot, walking, running, jogging, hiking, sitting or lying down who is involved in a motor vehicle traffic crash. For the purpose of this Fact Sheet a traffic crash is an incident that involves one or more vehicles where at least one vehicle is in-transport and the crash originates on a public traffic way. Crashes that occurred exclusively on private property, including parking lots and driveways, were excluded. In 2010, 4,280 pedestrians were killed and an estimated 70,000 were injured in traffic crashes in the United States.
  • NCSA’s Traffic Safety Fact Sheet "2010 Speeding" (DOT-HS-811-636), NHTSA considers a crash to be speeding-related if the driver was charged with a speeding-related offense or if an officer indicated that racing, driving too fast for conditions, or exceeding the posted speed limit was a contributing factor in the crash. Speeding is one of the most prevalent factors contributing to traffic crashes. In 2010, speeding was a contributing factor in 31 percent of all fatal crashes, and 10,395 lives were lost in speeding-related crashes.
  • NCSA’s Traffic Safety Fact Sheet "2010 Children" (DOT-HS-811-641), During 2010, there were a total of 32,885 traffic fatalities in the United States. The 14-and-younger age group accounted for 1,210 (4%) of those traffic fatalities, which is an 8-percent decrease from the 1,320 fatalities in 2009.
  • NCSA’s Traffic Safety Fact Sheet "2010 Older Population" (DOT-HS-811-640), This fact sheet focuses on the older population in the United States, defined as all people age 65 and older. In 2010, 13 percent of the total U.S. resident population (40.4 million people) were age 65 and older. In 2010, 5,484 people age 65 and older were killed and 189,000 were injured in traffic crashes.
  • Report: "Traffic Records Program Assessment Advisory" (DOT-HS-811-644), The Traffic Records Program Assessment Advisory provides information on the contents, capabilities, and data quality of an effective traffic records system, and includes assessment questions that qualified independent assessors can use to rate the capabilities of a State’s traffic records system.
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