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Palm Beach County Auto Accident Crash Data Overview

United States Auto Accident Statistics

Nationally, automobile accidents remain a huge source of tragedy as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that over 5,400,000 motor vehicle accidents were reported to the police in 2010.

The NHTSA research also provides the following data:

• 60% of fatal motor vehicle accidents in the United States in 2010 involved a single vehicle.
• 31% of these fatal crashes involved alcohol-impaired driving with a BAC (blood alcohol content) hitting  .08 or higher.
• When a fatal motor vehicle crash occurred in 2010 between midnight and three o’clock in the morning, 66% involved alcohol-impaired driving.

Florida: Palm Beach County Auto Accidents

According to the State of Florida Department of Motor Vehicles, statistics are showing that the number of fatal car accidents each year in Florida is decreasing.  Their data reveals that there were 235,778 traffic accidents in Florida 2009 and the annual crash data from 2005 to 2009 shows that the number of car accidents is decreasing every year in Florida.

2009: 235,778 traffic crashes

2008: 243,342 traffic crashes

2007: 265,206 traffic crashes

2006: 256,200 traffic crashes

2005: 268,605 traffic crashes

More people die from injuries sustained in a car crash during the months of March and October than any other month of the year in the State of Florida.

Table 1: Fatal Crashes in Florida by Month

As for day of the week and time of day, statistics compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show the following for Florida in 2011:

Table 2: State of Florida Traffic Fatalities in 2011

Palm Beach County Traffic Accidents Statistical Analysis

Palm Beach County covers 1970 square miles on the eastern coastline of Florida with a total population of almost 1,335,187 million according to 2011 state statistical data. Its three largest cities are West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and Boynton Beach.

In Palm Beach County, Florida, traffic crashes reported to the police range between 14,978 total accidents in 2006 to a low of 13,891 in 2008 as 13,400 accidents happened within the jurisdictional boundaries of Palm Beach County within the calendar year 2010.

In 2010, 1123 crashes were alcohol-related. Each year, over a hundred people die in car accidents in Palm Beach County; however, the fatality rate for motor vehicle accidents in Palm Beach County has declined in recent years:

Table 3:  Palm Beach County Accident Fatalities

Sources:

Florida Department of Health

Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

United States Census (census.gov)