INTERNATIONAL VARIATIONS IN THE MOTOR VEHICLE HAZARD

A COMPARISON OF THE CHANGES IN THE MOTOR VEHICLE HAZARD IN SOME 13 COUNTRIES BETWEEN 1965-66 AND 1967-68 INDICATES THAT FATALITY RATES, COMPUTED ON THE BASIS OF NUMBERS OF MOTOR VEHICLES OWNED AND RELATED TO MILES DRIVEN, HAVE DECLINED IN VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE COUNTRIES UNDER REVIEW, WHILE FATALITY RATES PER 100,000 POPULATION GENERALLY INCREASED. IN PARTICULAR, COMPARISON OF THE 1967-68 AVERAGE ANNUAL DEATH RATES PER 100 MILLION VEHICLE MILES WITH THOSE FOR 1965-66 SHOWS THAT 11 OF THE COUNTRIES REPORTED DECLINES RANGING FROM 3.5 PERCENT (THE UNITED STATES) TO 24.9 PERCENT (FINLAND). THE UNITED STATES, WITH THE LOWEST DEATH RATE PER 100 MILLION VEHICLE MILES, HAD THE FOURTH LOWEST RATE PER 100,000 REGISTERED MOTOR VEHICLES, BUT THE THIRD HIGHEST RATE PER 100,000 POPULATION. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 51, pp 1-4
• Corporate Authors:

  Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

  /Statistical Bulletin
  ,   United States 
• Publication Date: 1970-9

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash investigation; Fatalities; Traffic crashes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Death rate; Motor vehicle accidents
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221167
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 1 1971 12:00AM