FATALITY TRENDS: DRIVER AGE AND SEX

This is one of a series of occasional brief reports on highway traffic fatality trends in the United States. The data are from the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS). It examines driver involvement in fatal accidents by age and sex for the years 1975 to 1984. The statistics show that male drivers were involved in more than four times the fatal accidents that females were involved in, and that drivers under the age of 26 accounted for 41% of the involvements in fatal accidents while they made up 24% of the licensed driver population.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Center for Statistics and Analysis

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1985-10

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 14 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Drivers; Fatalities; Gender; Statistical trends; Traffic crashes
• Identifier Terms: Fatal Accident Reporting System
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver age
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00495711
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-039 563
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 31 1990 12:00AM