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JAMA. 2009;301(13):1333-1334.

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MMWR. 2009;58:161-165

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In 2005, the most recent year for which data are available, 45,520 deaths in the United States were related to motor vehicles.¹ A Healthy People 2010 objective calls for reducing the rate of deaths related to motor vehicles to 9.2 per 100,000 population from a baseline of 15.6 in 1998.² To assess progress toward the Healthy People objective and to examine characteristics of motor vehicle–related death rates, CDC analyzed data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) for the period 1999-2005. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which determined that, during 1999-2005, although annual age-adjusted motor vehicle–related death rates overall were nearly unchanged (range: 15.2-15.7 per 100,000 population), substantial differences were observed by state, U.S. Census region,* sex, race, and age group. Among states, the average annual death rate ranged from 7.9 per 100,000 population in Massachusetts to 31.9 in Mississippi. Among regions, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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