U.S. fatal passenger car crashes 2019

In 2019, there were nearly 19,600 passenger cars involved in crashes in the United States. The number of registered passenger cars in the United States decreased between 2014 and 2019, and the number of passenger cars involved in fatal crashes also decreased from 2018 onwards.

Number of passenger cars involved in fatal crashes in the United States from 1995 to 2019

Characteristic	Number of fatal passenger car crashes
19	19,582
18	20,594
17	21,273
16	21,077
15	19,810
14	17,895
13	17,957
12	18,269
11	17,508
10	17,804
09	18,413
08	20,474
07	22,856

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2021

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United States

Survey time period

1995 to 2019

Supplementary notes

The figures for 1995 through 2017 were taken from the Traffic Safety Facts 2017 report (table 3), published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in September 2019.
The figures for 2017 and 2018 were revised in 2021.

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