Texas Motor Vehicle Traffic Crash Highlights Calendar Year 2013
Information contained in this report
represents reportable data collected from Texas Peace Officer's Crash Reports
(CR-3) received and processed by the Department as of May 7, 2014.
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The Fatality Rate on Texas roadways for
2013 was 1.40 deaths per hundred million vehicle miles traveled. This is a
2.78% decrease from 2012.
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The Fatality Rate was 1.3 deaths per 10,000
residents; by comparison, the death rate
of most other states is less than 1.0 death per 10,000 residents (this is national
death rate per 10,000 residents). Hence,
Texas death rate is roughly 30% greater than the average national death rate.
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Texas experienced a decrease in the number
of motor vehicle traffic fatalities. The 2013 death toll of 3,377 was a
decrease of 1.05% from the 3,413 deaths recorded in 2012.
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There were 65,539 serious injury crashes in
Texas in 2013 with 89,270 people sustaining a serious injury.
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The annual vehicle miles traveled in Texas
during 2013 reached 240.447 billion, an increase of 1.1% over the 237.821
billion traveled in 2012.
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Fatalities in traffic crashes in rural
areas of the state accounted for 55.76% of the state’s traffic fatalities.
There were 1,883 deaths in rural traffic crashes.
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Single vehicle, run-off the road crashes
resulted in 1,333 deaths in 2013. This was 39.47 % of all motor vehicle traffic
deaths in 2013.
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In 2013 there were 767 people killed in
crashes occurring in intersections or related to an intersection.
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There were 523 people killed in head-on
crashes in 2013.
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There were no deathless days on Texas
roadways in 2013.
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There was one crash that resulted in 6 or
more fatalities in 2013.
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Saturday, March 23nd was the deadliest day
in 2013 with twenty-seven (27) persons killed in traffic crashes. June was the
deadliest month with 336 persons killed.
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Based on reportable crashes in 2013:
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1 person was killed every 2 hours 36
minutes
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1 person was injured every 2 minutes 16
seconds
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1 reportable crash occurred every 71
seconds
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Of all persons killed in vehicles where
restraint usage was applicable and usage was known in 2013, 44.7% were reported
as not restrained when the fatal crash occurred.
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232,041 persons were injured in motor
vehicle traffic crashes in 2013.
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There were 495 motorcyclists (operators and
passengers) killed in 2013. Fifty-three percent (53%) of motorcyclists killed
were not wearing helmets at the time of the crash.
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Pedestrian fatalities totaled 485 in 2013.
This is a 0.4% decrease from 2012.
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Pedalcyclist fatalities totaled 48 in 2013.
This is a 14.3% decrease from 2012.
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In 2013, there were 1,089 people killed in
motor vehicle traffic crashes where a driver was under the influence of
alcohol. This is 32.2% of the total number of people killed in motor vehicle
traffic crashes.
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During 2013, more DUI - Alcohol crashes
were reported in the hour between 2:00 am and 2:59 am than any other hour of
the day. Also, more of these crashes occurred on Saturday than any other day of
the week.
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In 2013, there were 460 people killed in
crashes involving distracted driving. This is a 2.34% decrease from 2012.
