New Year Road Accident Statistics
Christmas Day has passed days ago and several news coverage has delivered significant Christmas Eve and Christmas Day crash reports which almost summed up National Safety Council’s (NSC) estimation based from previous years’ recorded cases of such in the same period of observation. Most have sustained injuries and fatalities recorded across all age group from infants up to people within their 60’s, but is more than 45% lesser than preceding years’ records which somehow alleviate some worries from safety federal agencies on this upcoming New Year holiday.
Specifically, New Year is just one week ahead from Christmas Day and numbers of car accident occurrences are pretty relative among the two. Before New Year occur, here is our blog about New Year road accident peak statistics which is taken from 2018 and below where human activity has peaked and may it help reflect on your current standing on the road and avoid accident as much as possible. Though, road accidents are unexpected, planning before, during, and after the accident on what series of actions you should take legally, medically, and practically. One step that most people recommend following being involved in a car accident is to hire an injury lawyer as he/she’ll enable you to file for an injury claim, make the at-fault driver liable and claim your compensation pay and many more which alleviates some burden sustained.
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New Year Accident Statistics
- Since 1990’s, 2014 has the lowest recorded numbers at 120+ of car accidents within New Year period, while its preceding year, 2002, has one of the highest recorded deaths and 2004 as the second succeeding year with the relative numbers of 520+ deaths from traffic accidents.
- Between years 2005 up to 2009, New Year fatalities recorded were on par sitting at more than 390 and less than 450 deaths.
- Over the six most recent 3.25-day New Year’s Day holiday periods, fatalities from crashes during the holiday period averaged 11.6% of the total fatalities in January.
New Year Accident in Retrospect
This table is according to New Year’s period observation of fatality occurrence of car accident through January conducted by National Safety Council’s (NSC):
| Year | January | Accidents on New Year’s Period | Percent |
| 2006 | 3,396 | 432 | 12.7% |
| 2007 | 2,227 | 387 | 12.0% |
| 2010 | 2,515 | 286 | 11.4% |
| 2012 | 2,782 | 348 | 12.5% |
| 2016 | 2,734 | 273 | 10.0% |
| 2018 | 3,010 | 304 | 10.1% |
| 6-year Average | 2,944 | 338 | 11.6% |