The data for these reports were gathered from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) a database of all fatal motor vehicle crashes that occur in the United States. The FARS database is maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a division of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT). FARS is the only national database of motor vehicle crashes that occur in the United States.

The injuries included in these reports are only those that occurred in crashes where at least one person was killed. Injuries in non-fatal crashes are not reported in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System.

The data in these reports is for school-aged children during normal school transportation hours in passenger motor vehicles, as pedestrians and in school buses.

School-aged children: Ages 5 through 18

Normal school transportation hours: 6:00 a.m. to 8:59 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 4:59 p.m., Monday through Friday, September 1st through June 15th (excluding major national holidays)

Passenger motor vehicles: passenger cars, vans, light trucks and SUVs

The FARS Data program will allow the user to retrieve data on a national, state or county level in 3 different report formats, summary, detailed and ranking. Once you have installed this program on your computer you will find using this program to be very user friendly.

Click on the link that applies to you

1. I have Microsoft Office 2003, including Microsoft Access 2003 installed on my computer

2. I have Microsoft Office 2007, including Microsoft Access 2007 installed on my computer

3. I do not have either Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 installed on my computer

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