Fatality Rates

Goal: Make Transportation Safer - Vision Zero

Objective: Reduce the fatality rate to 1.15 or less.

Performance measure: Fatality rate

Data frequency: Calendar year to date (on a two-month delay)

The N.C. Department of Transportation determines its safety performance by a measure of the state's fatality rate, which is the total number of statewide fatalities on North Carolina roads per 100 million vehicle miles traveled for the calendar year to date.

Data on this page is accompanied by a trend chart of the total number of fatalities, crashes and injuries by year.

Data updated monthly (on a two-month delay)