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

In the United States, someone dies in a car wreck every 13 minutes.Over 40,000 people died in a car wreck in 2000. In these same accidents over 3,000,000 people suffered personal injury. That's over three million injuries resulting from a car wreck It's the leading cause of death for every age from four through thirty-three years. In the vast majority of these car wreck fatalities, the victims were the vehicle occupants. A small percent of car wreck 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 car wreck statistics show that accident rates have fallen since 1991, the car wreck fatality rate has increased. It is small wonder that concern about car wrecks involving trucks, buses and SUV's on our roads is increasing.