Georgia Law Blog

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has detailed statistics about the dangers of driving in the United States.  A great deal of eye opening information can be found here. 

Interestingly, the injury rate of occupants of vehicles decreased about 20% between 1992 and 2004.  In 2005, there were 39,189 fatal crashes in the United States.  In that same year, there were 14.66 people killed in an automobile wrecks for every 100,000 in population.  Thus, your odds of being killed  on the roadways in an automobile accident or tractor-trailer wreck in 2005 were 1 in 6,821.  The good news is that there has been small but steady decrease in fatalities over the past 10 years.