Missouri automobile and truck accidents and disabling injuries - January 29, 2010

Two weeks ago we listed the statistics for fatalities resulting from car, auto and truck accidents on Missouri's highways and roads.  Listed below are the statistics for disabling injuries resulting from crashes.  Also listed are the conditions or circumstances under which the disabling inuries occurred.   Data covered is from 2005-2007 and comes from the Missouri Coalition of Roadway Safety. 

While the number of deaths due to auto accidents have been reduced over the past years in Missouri, similar efforts are being made to reduce the number of disabling injuries as well.  Leanna Depue, chair of the Missouri Coalition of Roadway Safety's executive committee is advocating a primary sealt belt law in Missouri.  "A primary seat belt law in Missouri would increase the usage rate saving 63 lives, 759 serious injuries and $179 million in costs in the first year it goes into effect.  Amending the current law will also provide $16.2 million in a one-time federal incentive grant to use for safety enforcement, education and engineering, " Depue said.    Other measures designed to decrease deaths and serious injuries from automobile, car and truck accidents this coming year in Missouri include a focus on topics such as run-off road crashes, distracted driving, impaired driving and new engineering solutions for the state's highways and roads.



TOTAL DISABLING INJURIES BY TARGET AREA
2005-2007






Description
Total Disabling Injuries


Severly Injured Run-Off-Road Collisions
10,244


Aggressive Driving Conditions

Following Too Close
Too fast for conditions
Speed exceeded limit

TOTAL for 3 conditions
 

1,483
6,612
1,774

9,869


Non use of Occupant Protection Devices
7,049


Horizontal Curves
6,945


Inattentive Drivers
6,591


Alcohol & Other Drugs
4,090


Young Drivers - Less than 21
6,631


Collisions with Trees
2,564


Head-On Collisions
2,516


Unsignalized Intersection Collisions
4,557


Unlicensed Drivers
2,752


Commercial Vehicles
2,095


Signalized Intersection Collisions
2,395


Motorcyclists
1,989


Older Drivers - 65-75 Involved
2,011


Older Drivers - 76 or older
1,265


Pedestrian
953


Collisions with Utility Poles
745


Work-Zone
306


Bicyclists
242


School Buses
142


Head-On Crashes on Interstate
94