Highway crashes caused 94 percent of all transportation-related
fatalities in 2000, and were the leading cause of death of
people ages 5 through 29 (DOT Performance Plan FY 2002 and
Performance Report FY 2000). NOTES: Large trucks - trucks over
10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, including single unit
trucks and truck tractors. Light trucks - trucks of 10,000
pounds gross vehicle weight rating or less, including pickups,
vans, truck-based station wagons, and utility vehicles. The
number of light trucks has increased greatly since 1990,
affecting light truck occupant fatality numbers. See U.S.
Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation
Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2000, pp.
429-435, for detailed discussion of modal fatality data.
|Fatalities by Type||1999||2000| |Highway total* percent change
from previous year||0.52||0.25| |Passenger car
occupants||20,862||20,492| |Passenger car occupants percent
change from previous year||-1.57||-1.77| |Light-truck occupants
percent chang