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Article: Nonfatal motor-vehicle animal crash-related injuries--United States, 2001-2002.
- Article from:
- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- August 6, 2004
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In 2000, an estimated 6.1 million light-vehicle (e.g., passenger cars, sport utility vehicles, vans, and pickup trucks) crashes on U.S. roadways were reported to police (1). Of these reported crashes, 247,000 (4.0%) involved incidents in which the motor vehicle (MV) directly hit an animal on the roadway (1). Each year, an estimated 200 human deaths result from crashes involving animals (i.e., deaths from a direct MV animal collision or from a crash in which a driver tried to avoid an animal and ran off the roadway) (2). To characterize nonFatal injuries from these incidents, CDC analyzed data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program ...