Fatal accidents by driver age

Sixteen- to year-olds represent % of licensed drivers, but account for % of drivers in all crashes and % of drivers in fatal crashes. Other age groups are under-represented. For example, drivers 75 and older account for % of licensed drivers, but represent only % of drivers in all crashes and % of drivers in fatal www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 1 min. NHTSA Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) files for Male drivers under 19 had fatal accident involvement rates (involvements per hundred million miles) about times the overall rate. Rates for male drivers aged were times the overall rate. Younger male drivers continued to be over-involved until about age 6 rows ·  · In , drivers in this age group were involved in 6, fatal car accidents — that’s at Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.

The statistic shows the percentage of U.S. drivers using cell phones who were involved in fatal road crashes in Drivers aged between 25 and 34 accounted for just under one-third of cell phone drivers involved in fatal road crashes. There were more than 50, fatal crashes on U.S. roads in Among drivers younger than 80, rates of involvement in fatal crashes were highest among drivers ages and lowest among drivers ages , but the degree to which rates of fatal crashes decreased with increasing age was somewhat smaller than it was among injury crashes and among all police-reported crashes. The fatal crash involvement rate of drivers ages was also notably elevated relative to that of drivers ages and was comparable to that of drivers ages Sixteen- to year-olds represent % of licensed drivers, but account for % of drivers in all crashes and % of drivers in fatal crashes. Other age groups are under-represented. For example, drivers 75 and older account for % of licensed drivers, but represent only % of drivers in all crashes and % of drivers in fatal crashes.

Based on current crash rates per licensed driver and estimates of the future number of licensed drivers, projections of crashes involving drivers aged 65 and. Numbers of drivers ages 25 years or younger, involved in fatal crashes, to Distribution of fatal crash involved drivers by age-gender groups. Analyses are conducted according to the age and gender ofthe driver for fatal involvements, injury involvements, and all police-reported accidents.