The U.S. Department of Transportation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration provides requests for data and information regarding traffic safety.

The 1996 NHTSA report contains interesting information about a variety of subjects including motor vehicle crashes by vehicle type, occupants, nonmotorists, alcohol, restraints, time, location, circumstances, motorcycles, school buses, pedestrians, pedalcyclists, emergency medical services, city rates, state rates, current laws by state for safety belts, helmets, child protection laws, and more.

Information is available at www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/ncsa and data files, fact sheets, abstracts of technical reports can be downloaded in portable document format (.pdf). Comments and suggestions about the NCSA web site can be e-mailed to ncsaweb@nhsta.dot.gov. NHTSA can also be contacted at:

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
National Center for Statistics and Analysis
NRD-31
400 Seventh Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20590

1-800-934-8517
202-366-4198
202-366-7078 FAX