Christmas Day Tables 2022


1	NSC Christmas Day holiday period traffic fatality estimates compared to actual deaths, United States
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3	Year	Actual deaths	NSC Lower confidence limit	NSC estimated deaths	NSC Upper confidence limit
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6	1995	342	351	422	502
7	1996	136	113	145	182
8	1997	466	458	563	680
9	1998	354	350	406	468
10	1999	456	316	369	428
11	2000	419	300	359	424
12	2001	575	417	522	641
13	2002	114	131	160	193
14	2003	488	438	529	636
15	2004	370	356	440	536
16	2005	383	352	443	546
17	2006	379	332	415	507
18	2007	454	424	497	579
19	2008	409	371	432	500
20	2009	248	253	317	388
21	2010	249	233	303	384
22	2011	256	220	287	365
23	2012	351	320	377	441
24	2013	88	82	105	132
25	2014	355	330	366	407
26	2015	280	259	307	362
27	2016	318	274	314	358
28	2017	299	269	308	351
29	2018	425	372	422	478
30	2019	136	94	115	138
31	2020	312	288	340	395
32	2021		314	371	431
33	2022		301	346	393
34	Source: Actual deaths are NSC analysis of NHTSA FARS data, all other counts are NSC estimates.
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1	Percent of traffic fatalities involving alcohol-impaired driving (a), Christmas Day vs. Annual Average
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4	Year	Christmas Day	Annual Average
5	1982	50%	48%
6	1983	54%	47%
7	1984	54%	44%
8	1985	47%	41%
9	1986	48%	42%
10	1987	47%	41%
11	1988	48%	40%
12	1989	49%	38%
13	1990	42%	40%
14	1991	36%	38%
15	1992	39%	36%
16	1993	43%	34%
17	1994	40%	33%
18	1995	40%	32%
19	1996	37%	32%
20	1997	33%	30%
21	1998	41%	30%
22	1999	41%	30%
23	2000	40%	32%
24	2001	39%	31%
25	2002	40%	31%
26	2003	37%	31%
27	2004	38%	31%
28	2005	40%	31%
29	2006	42%	32%
30	2007	38%	32%
31	2008	32%	31%
32	2009	36%	32%
33	2010	35%	31%
34	2011	36%	30%
35	2012	35%	31%
36	2013	38%	31%
37	2014	34%	30%
38	2015	36%	29%
39	2016	35%	29%
40	2017	38%	29%
41	2018	35%	29%
42	2019	37%	28%
43	2020	39%	30%
44	Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administraion: https://cdan.dot.gov/query
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46	(a) Highest blood alcohol concentraion (BAC among drivers or motorcylce riders involved in the crash was 0.08 grams per deciliter or greater. NHTSA estimates alcohol inolvement when alcohol test results are unknown.
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50	Note: Percent of deaths conforms to the HHTSA holiday period defintion that is a quarter day longer than NSC's holiday period definition.
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1	Traffic deaths durring Christmas Day holiday periods and equivalent nonholiday periods
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3	Year	Christmas Day period	1 week before - equivalent period	2 weeks before - equivalent period
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6	1995	342	411	420
7	1996	136	116	144
8	1997	466	615	510
9	1998	354	502	408
10	1999	456	393	402
11	2000	419	389	420
12	2001	575	521	528
13	2002	114	128	153
14	2003	488	522	509
15	2004	370	447	412
16	2005	383	400	399
17	2006	379	410	414
18	2007	454	431	490
19	2008	409	437	427
20	2009	248	253	317
21	2010	249	321	323
22	2011	256	329	299
23	2012	351	407	346
24	2013	88	95	81
25	2014	355	389	411
26	2015	280	301	376
27	2016	318	338	304
28	2017	308	330	305
29	2018	425	485	411
30	2019	136	136	115
31	2020	312	379	423
32	Source: NSC analysis of NHTSA FARS data


1	Comparison of average number of traffic deaths per day durring select holiday periods
2	Year	New Year's Day	Memorial Day	Independence Day	Labor Day	Thanksgiving Day	Christmas Day
3	Year	New Year's Day	Memorial Day	Independence Day	Labor Day	Thanksgiving Day	Christmas Day
4	1995		145	148	151	122	105
5	1996	127	152	143	156	134	109
6	1997	141	153	151	149	130	110
7	1998	125	118	141	138	138	109
8	1999	107	152	154	144	133	140
9	2000	141	139	161	158	117	129
10	2001	104	154	138	133	136	135
11	2002	130	149	156	165	124	91
12	2003	162	145	154	151	128	115
13	2004	129	153	154	148	131	114
14	2005	138	158	174	154	142	118
15	2006	133	152	148	150	147	117
16	2007	119	146	147	156	128	107
17	2008	96	127	145	146	114	96
18	2009	108	142	122	108	94	76
19	2010	88	120	112	120	98	77
20	2011	94	120	125	115	88	79
21	2012	107	113	126	116	95	83
22	2013	81	103	108	114	85	70
23	2014	101	104	107	111	95	84
24	2015	83	114	113	122	92	86
25	2016	86	121	122	118	103	98
26	2017	101	107	125	108	110	95
27	2018	100	132	140	133	102	100
28	2019	101	139	117	135	97	109
29	2020	110	122	147	156	117	96
30	Source: NSC analysis of NHTSA FARS data
31	Note: The length of the holiday period depends on the day of the week on which the holidays falls. Memorial Day and Labor Day are always 3.25 days; Thanksgiving is always 4.25 days; and New Year's Day , Independence Day, and Christmas are 3.25 days if the holiday falls on Friday through Monday, 4.25 days if on Tuesday or Thursday, and 1.25 days if on Wednesday. To compare holidays of different lengths, the number of deaths per day was calculated by dividing the number of traffic deaths by the number of days.
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