New State-based Costs of Crash Deaths from CDC
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2011 to 2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety. CDC is excited to be part of this effort to enhance focus on protecting people on the road. As a first step, CDC is releasing fact sheets showing the tremendous cost burden of deaths from motor vehicle crashes in the United States, and highlighting strategies to prevent these deaths.
Over 30,000 people are killed in crashes each year in the United States. In 2005, in addition to the toll on victims' family and friends, crash deaths resulted in $41 billion in medical and work loss costs.
CDC's new analysis found that only 10 states shoulder half of all the costs of crash deaths. Individual state fact sheets with state-specific cost information are now available .
The ten states with the highest medical and work loss costs were California ($4.16 billion), Texas ($3.50 billion), Florida ($3.16 billion), Georgia ($1.55 billion), Pennsylvania ($1.52 billion), North Carolina ($1.50 billion), New York ($1.33 billion), Illinois ($1.32 billion), Ohio ($1.23 billion), and Tennessee ($1.15 billion).
Learn more about your state's costs and CDC's recommendations
for safety on the road: