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Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities and Injuries - 1995
by Functional System and Federal-Aid Highways

Highway Categories Pedestrians Injured
Fatal Nonfatal 2/
Number 3/ Rate 4/ Number Rate 4/
Functional System
Rural
Interstate 188 0.08 1,319 0.59
Other Principal Arterial 347 0.16 2,484 1.15
Minor Arterial 317 0.21 3,000 1.96
Major Collector 319 0.17 2,795 1.50
Minor Collector 105 0.21 965 1.93
   Local 295 0.28 5,207 4.95
Subtotal -- Rural 1,571 0.17 15,770 1.69
Urban
Interstate 350 0.10 6,160 1.80
Other Freeways & Expressways 225 0.15 2,016 1.33
Other Principal Arterial 1,529 0.41 27,026 7.30
Minor Arterial 826 0.28 19,377 6.61
Collector 282 0.22 9,742 7.68
   Local 802 0.39 38,353 18.63
Subtotal -- Urban 4,014 0.27 102,677 6.89
Total
5,585 0.23 118,447 4.89
Federal-Aid Highways (Rural & Urban)
Interstate System 538 0.10 7,480 1.32
Other National Highway System 5/ 1,348 0.28 13,207 2.77
Total National Highway System 1,886 0.18 20,687 1.99
Other Federal - Aid Highways 6/ 2,497 0.24 53,235 5.22
Total Federal - Aid Highways 7/ 4,383 0.21 73,922 3.59
Total Non-Federal - Aid Highways 8/ 1,202 0.33 44,525 12.34
Total
5,585 0.23 118,447 4.89
2/ 1994 information for nonfatal injury accidents, nonfatal injured persons, most serious injured, and pedestrians injured is shown for the District of Columbia, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York. Ohio, Utah, and Vermont because of incomplete reporting prior to this publication.

3/ Fatal accident and fatality numbers have been adjusted to agree with State totals obtained from Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) as of June 1, 1996.

4/ Per 100 million vehicle-miles of travel.

5/ Includes data for non-Interstate facilities, but excludes accident data for about 514 miles of collectors and locals.

6/ Includes urban minor arterial and collector and rural minor arterial and major collector functional systems.

7/ The category Total Federal-Aid Highways includes Other Federal-Aid Highways and Total National Highway System.

8/ Includes urban local and rural minor collector and local functional systems.

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