A car accident is a road traffic incident that usually
involves one road vehicle colliding with another vehicle or other road
user, animal, or a stationary roadside
object, and may result in injury, property
damage, and possibly death.
In the United States the calculable costs of motor-vehicle crashes are
wage and productivity losses, medical expenses, motor vehicle damage,
employers’ uninsured costs, and administrative expenses. The costs of
all these items for each death (not each fatal crash), injury (not each
injury crash), and property damage crash was: Average Economic Cost per
Death, Injury, or Crash, 2006: Nonfatal; Disabling Injury; $55,000;
Property Damage Crash (including nondisabling injuries) $8,200; Death;
$1,210,000; Expressed on a per death basis, the cost of all motor
vehicle crashes—i.e. fatal, nonfatal injury, and property damage—was
$5,800,000. This includes the cost of one death, 197 property damage
crashes (including minor injuries, 54 nonfatal disabling injuries). This
average may be used to estimate the motor vehicle crash costs for a
state provided that there are at least 10 deaths and only one or two
occurred in each fatal crash. If fewer than 10 deaths, estimate the
costs of deaths, nonfatal disabling injuries, and property damage
crashes separately.
Defined in sections 2.3.4 through 2.3.6 of the Manual on Classification
of Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents (7th Edition) ANSI Standard
D16.1-2007 are defined by severity motor vehicle injuries Estimates are
given here of the costs by severity of injuries.
http://www2.nsc.org/
lrs/statinfo/estcost.htm
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