The National Safety Council has a variety of materials and resources to help you understand the hazards you face behind the wheel, including fact sheets for you to pass information along to others.
Fact Sheets
Fleet Safety Benchmarking Program
The Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals
Each month, motor vehicle fatality data is supplied to the National Safety Council by traffic authorities in 50 states and the District of Columbia. This data is used to make current year estimates based on the latest final count from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). NSC counts total motor vehicle-related fatalities that occur within a year of the crash, consistent with data compiled from death certificates by the NCHS, and includes those occurring on public highways and private property. This differs from the methods used by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The NHTSA method counts traffic fatalities that occur within 30 days of a crash and only those occurring on public highways.
The National Safety Council calls on all Americans to get involved in the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011 – 2020, an initiative of the World Health Organization. The Decade seeks to prevent road traffic deaths and injuries that experts project will take the lives of 1.9 million people annually by 2020. Motor vehicle crashes are the 9th leading cause of death globally. Learn more.