State-Based Costs of Deaths from Crashes
Over 30,000 people are killed in crashes each year in the United States. In 2005, in addition to the toll on victims’ family and friends, crash deaths resulted in $41 billion in medical and work loss costs.
A new CDC data analysis looked at the costs of crash deaths by state and found that half of all costs were found in 10 states. The ten states with the highest medical and work loss costs were California ($4.16 billion), Texas ($3.50 billion), Florida ($3.16 billion), Georgia ($1.55 billion), Pennsylvania ($1.52 billion), North Carolina ($1.50 billion), New York ($1.33 billion), Illinois ($1.32 billion), Ohio ($1.23 billion), and Tennessee ($1.15 billion).
Below, you will find fact sheets for each state, showing costs and CDC’s recommendations for saving lives and money.
Why is there not a cost fact sheet for the District of Columbia? Within the District of Columbia in 2005, there were too few crash deaths (under 20) to allow CDC scientists to provide stable cost data. Because of this, CDC decided to provide fact sheets for just the 50 states. Though the data are unstable, CDC can provide data from the District of Columbia upon request.
State-Specific Costs of Crash Deaths Fact Sheets
- Alabama Total Cost: $1.07 billion
- Alaska Total Cost: $74 million
- Arizona Total Cost: $1.10 billion
- Arkansas Total Cost: $618 million
- California Total Cost: $4.16 billion
- Colorado Total Cost: $623 million
- Connecticut Total Cost: $263 million
- Delaware Total Cost: $107 million
- Florida Total Cost: $3.16 billion
- Georgia Total Cost: $1.55 billion
- Hawaii Total Cost: $124 million
- Idaho Total Cost: $253 million
- Illinois Total Cost: $1.32 billion
- Indiana Total Cost: $883 million
- Iowa Total Cost: $388 million
- Kansas Total Cost: $433 million
- Kentucky Total Cost: $871 million
- Louisiana Total Cost: $969 million
- Maine Total Cost: $159 million
- Maryland Total Cost: $576 million
- Massachusetts Total Cost: $394 million
- Michigan Total Cost: $1.04 billion
- Minnesota Total Cost: $527 million
- Mississippi Total Cost: $881 million
- Missouri Total Cost: $1.07 billion
- Montana Total Cost: $205 million
- Nebraska Total Cost: $245 million
- Nevada Total Cost: $387 million
- New Hampshire Total Cost: $143 million
- New Jersey Total Cost: $651 million
- New Mexico Total Cost: $435 million
- New York Total Cost: $1.33 billion
- North Carolina Total Cost: $1.5 billion
- North Dakota Total Cost: $111 million
- Ohio Total Cost: $1.23 billion
- Oklahoma Total Cost: $700 million
- Oregon Total Cost: $422 million
- Pennsylvania Total Cost: $1.52 billion
- Rhode Island Total Cost: $79 million
- South Carolina Total Cost: $1.01 billion
- South Dakota Total Cost: $156 million
- Tennessee Total Cost: $1.15 billion
- Texas Total Cost: $3.50 billion
- Utah Total Cost: $281 million
- Vermont Total Cost: $73 million
- Virginia Total Cost: $863 million
- Washington Total Cost: $665 million
- West Virginia Total Cost: $342 million
- Wisconsin Total Cost: $751 million
- Wyoming Total Cost: $137 million
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