# Presentation: 231610

## Meeting the Safety Challenge

- Jeffrey W. Runge, M.D.
- Administrator
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

**Automotive News World Congress ****January 14, 2003**

## Persons Killed and Injured and Number of Crashes

|  | Year |  | % Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | 2000 | 2001 |  |
| Persons Killed | 41,945 | 42,116 | +0.4% |
| Persons Injured | 3,189,000 | 3,033,000 | -4.9% |

**Persons Killed and Injured ****and Number of Crashes**

- DTPC/SC 2002-2003 #1/Runge's Auto News speech Jan 2003

## Economic Cost of Crashes 2000

**Economic Cost of Crashes 2000**

- $230.6 billion total cost, including
- $32.6 billion in medical expense
- $81 billion in lost productivity
- 2.3% of US Gross Domestic Product
- $820 for each man, woman & child
- $1.1 million avg. cost for critically injured survivor

- DTPC/SC 2002-2003 #1/Runge's Auto News speech Jan 2003

## Safety Belt Use Rates 1983-2003

- 78%

- GOAL

- DTPC/SC 2002-2003 #1/Runge's Auto News speech Jan 2003

## Failure to Use Safety Belts

- 9,200 fatalities
- 143,000 people injured
- $26 billion in costs incurred

- DTPC/SC 2002-2003 #1/Runge's Auto News speech Jan 2003

## Safety Belt Benefits

**For each 1% increase in safety belt use:**
- 2.8 million more people buckling up
- 270 lives saved
- $800 million cost saved
- Reduce severity of 6,400 serious injuries
**Belt use at 90%:**
- 6,600 lives saved each year

- DTPC/SC 2002-2003 #1/Runge's Auto News speech Jan 2003

## AVI file for Unbelted 50th Percentile Male Driver

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- DTPC/SC 2002-2003 #1/Runge's Auto News speech Jan 2003

## Persons Killed in Alcohol-Related Traffic Crashes by Year

**Source:  FARS**

**Persons Killed in Alcohol-Related ****Traffic Crashes by Year**

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**Notes:**
So how are we doing in this area?  Looking at the past five years, things do not look so good.  Over that period the number killed has either remain level or increased slightly. 

## Predicted Lives Saved by Countermeasure 

**Other  - 36%**

**Safety Belts ****at 90% Use - 34%**

**Alcohol - 30%**

**Predicted Lives Saved ****by Countermeasure**** **

- DTPC/SC 2002-2003 #1/Runge's Auto News speech Jan 2003

**Notes:**
        Looking at the data again, you can clearly see why the next priority area, alcohol, was identified.  

        Even while continuing the seat belt emphasis, NHTSA is launching its most serious push against alcohol and drug impaired driving in more than a decade.

## Touch Screen Multifunction Display

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## Priority: Vehicle Compatibility

**Priority: Vehicle Compatibility**

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## Driver Fatality Ratios in Frontal Crashes

- Source: FARS 1995-1999

**Full Size Van**

**Full Size****Pickup**

**Sport Utility**
**Vehicle (all)**

**Minivan**

**Compact**
**Pickup**

**1:6.0**

**1:6.2**

**1:4.3**

**1:2.6**

**1:2.6**

**Driver Fatality Ratios in Frontal Crashes**

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## Driver Fatality Ratios in Near-Side Crashes

**Sport Utility Vehicle**

**Passenger Car**

**Full Size Pickup**

**1:26.1**

**1:16.3**

**1:7.8**

- Source: FARS 1995 - 1999

**Driver Fatality Ratios in ****Near-Side Crashes**

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## Structural 
    Engagement 
    (Geometry)

Energy Management 
    (Stiffness & Crush Force)

**    ****Engagement **
**    ****(Geometry)**
**Energy Management **
**    ****(Stiffness & Crush Force)**

**Compatibility Issues**** **

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## Priority: Rollover

**Priority: Rollover**

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## Vehicles in Crashes and 

**Rollover**

**Front**

**Side**

**Rear**

**Other**

**Passenger Vehicles**
**in Crashes 2001**

**Approx. 10.7 million vehicles involved **

**Passenger Vehicle**
**Occupant Fatalities 2001 **

**31,910  total occupants killed**

**Vehicles in Crashes and **
**Fatalities by Type of Collision**

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## Occupant Fatalities in Rollover Crashes, 2001Rate per 100,000 Registered Vehicles

- Passenger cars	 4,549	3.53
- SUVs	 2,142	**9.90**
- Pickup trucks	 2,643	6.97
- Vans	    784	4.33
- Total	10,118	4.90

**Deaths   ****	**** Rate**

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## Occupant

**Passenger Cars**

**Pickups**

**    ****Vans**

**      ****SUVs**

**Occupant**
**Fatalities by Type of Crash,**
**2001**

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## Serious Injuries by Type of Crash, 2001

**Passenger Cars**

**Pickups**

**Vans**

**SUVs**

**Serious Injuries by Type ****of Crash, ****2001**

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## Occupant Restraint Use and Complete Ejection in Fatal Rollover

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## AVI file for DRF-Dynamic Rollover Fixture

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## 2008 Goal Is Challenging

**1996**

**1997**

**1998**

**1999**

**2000**

**2001**

**2002**

**2003**

**2004**

**2004**

**2006**

**2007**

**2008**

**Fatalities**

**50,332**

**33,500**

**Year**

**42,116**

**2008 Goal Is Challenging**

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