Effectiveness of Behavioral Highway Safety Countermeasures (2008) / Chapter Skim
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At the opposite end of the range are child occupants of passenger vehicles. They are highly protected by the car and by the fact that they are often in the back seat, sometimes in a child restraint device.
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Drowsy 1,344 3.15 Fatalities involving drowsy drivers Speed 11,518 27.01 Speed related, speed violation, or excessive speed fatalities Aggressive 11,684 27.40 Fatalities involving speeding, reckless driving, road rage, aggressive driving Alcohol related 17,602 41.28 Fatalities involving drivers with BAC .01 Teen drivers 2,291 5.37 Fatalities involving 16- and 17-year-old drivers in passenger vehicles 16-year-old drivers 880 2.06 Fatalities involving 16-year-old drivers in passenger vehicles Elderly drivers 3,135 7.35 Fatalities involving drivers age 75 and over in passenger vehicles Motorcycles 4,654 10.91 All motorcyclist fatalities Nighttime 15,194 35.63 All fatalities occurring between 9 P.M.
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. Using that approach, the estimated cost of a death in 2007 would have been 1.03 times the estimated cost shown in Table 3 (i.e., it would be $1,149.344, rather than the $1,115,820 shown)
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