Motor Vehicle Crashes

Auto Accident Attorneys

Snapshot: Year 2000-According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the total economic cost of motor vehicle crashes in the year 2000 was $230.6 billion. There were 41,821 fatalities, 5.3 million non-fatal injuries, and 28 million damaged vehicles, in both police-reported and unreported crashes.

Lost market productivity accounted for $61 billion of this total, while property damage accounted for $59 billion. Medical expenses totaled $32.6 billion. Public revenues paid for roughly 9 percent of all motor vehicle crash costs, costing tax payers $21 billion in 2000, the equivalent of over $200 in added taxes for every household in the U.S.

Alcohol involved crashes accounted for $51.1 billion or 22 percent of all economic costs, and 75 percent of these costs occurred in crashes where a driver or non-occupant had a BAC (blood alcohol concentration) of .10 or greater. In roughly 80 percent of these cases, alcohol was the cause of the crash.

Crashes exceeding the legal speed limit or driving too fast for conditions cost $40.4 billion in 2000. Safety belt use prevented 11,900 fatalities, 325,000 serious injuries, and $50 billion in injury related costs in 2000, but the failure of a substantial portion of the driving population to buckle up caused 9,200 unnecessary fatalities, 143,000 serious injuries, and cost society $26 billion in easily preventable injury related costs.

Motor vehicle crashes destroy families leaving them devastated due to wrongful death, catastrophic injuries, traumatic brain injuries, bad faith insurance, and grave economic upheavals.

Statistics: Ohio Motor Vehicle Crashes in 2007

1,257	traffic fatalities
909	passenger vehicle occupant fatalities
391	alcohol-impaired driving fatalities
277	speeding fatalities
190	motorcycle fatalities
107	pedestrian fatalities

Statistics: Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Crashes in 2007

1,491	traffic fatalities
1,034	passenger vehicle occupant fatalities
500	alcohol-impaired driving fatalities
783	speeding fatalities
225	motorcycle fatalities
151	pedestrian fatalities

Have you or a loved one suffered a motor vehicle crash in Ohio or Pennsylvania, West Virginia, or New Jersey that ruined your life?