Car Insurance

More people seem to be on the road every day. Where I live the freeways continue to be more and more congested. With the slow down caused by all this congestion you would think traffic accidents would be going down, they are not. Instead you need to concentrate on the fact that there are more people than ever on the roads and every one of them can cause an accident. Here are some motor vehicle facts for you to be aware of.

According to the Federal Highway Administration as of October 2004 there were nearly 200,000,000 licensed drivers in the United States. The amount of men and women with licenses are nearly equal.

Nearly 70% of our population can legally drive.

There are more registered cars, 231 million, than there are licensed drivers.

In 2004 there were nearly 7 million motor vehicles involved in accidents. From those incidents over 3.5 million injuries were reported.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has reported that over 43,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2002.

According to the NHTSA rural areas compared to urban area are riskier to drive in. There is a 58.4% death rate in rural areas compared to urban areas.

Rural drivers are more likely to log more miles and thus spend more time on the roadways. The death rate might also be higher due to the length of time it takes for emergency vehicles to arrive at the accident scene and get the injured to the hospital.

Motor vehicle accidents cost nearly $5,000 per second if you broke it down.

Most drivers will have a near car crash one to three times a month. There will be an actually accident every five to eight years. If you are a lucky one and have not been involved in an accident than some has had been unfortunate and taken up the slack.

By 2025 it is expected that costs for car collisions will exceed 450 billion dollars. Perhaps technology will be advanced by then and motor vehicles can be made to be more resistant to collisions, or at least we can hope, so that this number will come down.