Car Crashes

The NHTSA has a table with an overview of stats on vehicle crashes in the last dozen years. The trend seems to be that driving is becoming safer (if you look at the last several rows). Note that it’s in reverse-chronological order.

Interestingly, motorcycle fatalities more than doubled in a decade. Maybe there are more motorcycles on the road now, but I doubt it’s increased that much. It could have to do with the aging demographics of motorcyclists.

There’s also a whole query interface if you want to take some time to extract more interesting data.
(via BoingBoing)