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Abstract
The overall age-adjusted rate of motor vehicle traffic deaths in the United States
decreased 25% from 14.6 deaths per 100,000 population in 2005 to 10.9 in 2015. During
this period, the rate declined in each of the county groupings, with the largest decline
of 26% in the large fringe metropolitan and micropolitan counties and the smallest
decline of 20% in rural counties. For both years, the rates for motor vehicle traffic
deaths were higher in nonmetropolitan areas than in metropolitan areas. In 2015, the
age-adjusted rate in rural counties was nearly three times the rate for large central
metropolitan counties (23.0 compared with 7.9 per 100,000).
Sources: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System,
Mortality File https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm.
Ingram DD, Franco SJ. 2013 National Center for Health Statistics urban-rural classification
scheme for counties. Vital Health Stat 2014;2(166). https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_02/sr02_166.pdf.
For more information on this topic, CDC recommends the following link: https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/.
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