Death rate from road accidents, in 2017. Road fatalities per vehicle-km (fatalities per 1 billion km) In 2004 50 million more were injured in motor vehicle<unk> s. In 2013, between 1.25 million and 1.4 million people were killed in<unk> s, up from 1.1 million deaths in 1990. That number represents about 2.5% of all deaths. Approximately 50 million additional people were injured in<unk> s, a number unchanged from 2004. India recorded 105,000<unk>  deaths in a year, followed by China with over 96,000 deaths. This makes motor vehicle<unk> s the leading cause of injury and death among children worldwide 10–19 years old (260,000 children die a year, 10 million are injured) and the sixth leading preventable cause of death in the United States. In 2019, there were 36,096 people killed and 2.74 million people injured in motor vehicle<unk>  crashes on roadways in the United States. In the state of Texas alone, there were a total of 415,892<unk> s, including 3,005 fatal crashes in 2012. In Canada, they are the cause of 48% of severe injuries. Crash rates The safety performance of roadways is almost always reported as a rate. That is, some measure of harm (deaths, injuries, or number of crashes) divided by some measure of exposure to the risk of this harm. Rates are used so the safety performance of different locations can be compared, and to prioritize safety improvements. Common rates related to road<unk>  fatalities include the number of deaths per capita, per registered vehicle, per licensed driver, or per vehicle mile or kilometer traveled. Simple counts are almost never used. The annual count of fatalities is a rate, namely, the number of fatalities per year. There is no one rate that is superior to others in any general sense. The rate to be selected depends on the question being asked – and often also on what data are available. What is important is to specify exactly what rate is measured and how it relates to the problem being addressed. Some agencies concentrate on crashes per total vehicle distance traveled. Others combine rates. The U.S. state of Iowa, for example, selects high<unk>  locations based on a combination of crashes per million miles traveled, crashes per mile per year, and value loss (crash severity). Fatality The definition of a road-traffic fatality varies from country to country. In the United States, the definition used in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) run by the National Highway<unk>  Safety Administration (NHTSA) is a person who dies within 30 days of a crash on a US public road involving a vehicle with an engine, the death being the result of the crash. In the U.S., therefore, if a driver has a non-fatal heart attack that leads to a road-traffic crash that causes death, that is a road-traffic fatality. However, if the heart attack causes death prior to the crash, then that is not a road-traffic fatality. The definition of a road-traffic fatality can change with time in the same country. For example, fatality was defined in France as a person who dies in the six days (pre 2005) after the<unk>  and was subsequently changed to the 30 days (post 2005) after the<unk> .
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