Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Transport Fatalities by Mode, United States, 1970-2003

Each mode involves a level of insecurity. Road transport is responsible for much more victims than any other mode. In fact, nearly 95% of all victims in transports are killed on the road. Among those victims, nearly 50% are divers, 30% are passengers, 15% are pedestrians, 4% are motorcyclists and 2% are cyclists. Although the number of fatalities in road transport has significantly been reduced mainly because of better safety devices in vehicles, the modal proportion of fatalities remains the same.

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