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Crash Hour

Crash Hour. Facts About the Nation’s Hellish Highways. Deadly Accidents. 11.8 million motor-vehicle accidents were reported to police in 2003 41,600 of those crashes resulted in one or more deaths bringing the total number of deaths to 44,800

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Crash Hour

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  1. Crash Hour Facts About the Nation’s Hellish Highways

  2. Deadly Accidents • 11.8 million motor-vehicle accidents were reported to police in 2003 • 41,600 of those crashes resulted in one or more deaths bringing the total number of deaths to 44,800 • 7,153 of those who died would have survived if they had been wearing seatbelts

  3. Driving Times • 8 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. on Saturday is the deadliest time to drive, accounting for 4 percent of all fatal crashes • 12 a.m. to 3:59 a.m. on Tuesdays is the safest time to drive, accounting for 1 percent of all fatal crashes • In 2003, 63 percent of the crashes that occurred during those hours involved alcohol

  4. Trouble for Men • Males are nearly four times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than females • If you’re between the ages of 15 and 24, your chances double • Overall, auto accidents are the fourth leading cause of death among men • This year, nearly 2.6 million Americans, almost exactly half of them men, will suffer serious injuries in a vehicle accident

  5. Alcohol • About 41 percent of all traffic fatalities in 2002 involved an intoxicated or alcohol-impaired driver • Alcohol-related vehicle crashes kill someone on American roads every 30 minutes and injure someone every 2 minutes

  6. Cell Phones • A commuter spends 14.5 minutes per day talking on the phone while driving • There have been 300,000 crashes resulting from cell phone use in the past 5 years • You are 4 times more likely to crash if you are talking on your cell phone • It takes you 2 times longer to brake if you are talking on a cell phone

  7. Collisions • 13,000 people died in 2003 after colliding with a fixed object • You’re nearly twice as likely to die if you hit a fixed object • 10,500 people died after colliding with another car at an angle • 5,300 people died after colliding with another car head-on • You’re almost seven times more likely to die in a head-on collision than in an angled impact

  8. A person dies on a U.S. roadway every 12 minutes The day you see this presentation, 100 people will die in vehicle accidents In the month of April, when the nation begins to emerge from its winter dormancy, about 3,500 Americans will die in crashes Disturbing Facts

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