Auto accident statistics show that in the year 2000, there were over three million injuries resulting from an auto accident. Forty thousand of these people died in an auto accident. These auto accident statistics also show that on average, one hundred fifteen people died each day in an auto accident.

In the United States, someone dies in an auto accident every 13 minutes.Over 40,000 people died in an auto accident in 2000. In these same accidents over 3,000,000 people suffered personal injury. That's over three million injuries resulting from an auto accident It's the leading cause of death for every age from four through thirty-three years. In the vast majority of these auto accident fatalities, the victims were the vehicle occupants. A small percent of auto accident fatalities were pedestrians, bicyclists and other nonoccupants.

Large Truck and SUV Accident Statistics

Large trucks are only three percent of all registered vehicles, but collisions involving large trucks accounted for nine percent of all 1997 traffic fatalities. While the auto accident statistics show that accident rates have fallen since 1991, the auto accident fatality rate has increased. It is small wonder that concern about auto accidents involving trucks, buses and SUV's on our roads is increasing.