Life
Time Risk of a Traffic Death
Based on Year 2004
Findings:
- In California, the
cumulative
risk of a traffic death for the age 1 to 75 for males is 1.1 per hundred. For
females, the lifetime risk is half that, 1
per 200.
- The
cumulative rate of risk (the risk of adding up the rate for each year)
of traffic a death at age 75 for males has
dropped by 27% for males and
18% for females between 1991 and
2004.
- In 2004, for males the cumulative rate for
drivers was much higher than for other roles.
- In
2004, for males the cumulative rate by
age 75 for passengers and pedestrians are similar.
- In 2004, for females the cumulative rate by age 75 for
drivers and passengers are similar.
*For Cumulative Risk by Fault go
here.
The data on the next chart represents
the
risk per 100,000 of dying in a crash on the roads of California for
each year of life. These crashes include pedestrian, bicycle, and
anything that occurs on the California roadways.

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+ For
males the peak risk of death is at 19, years of age, 33.46 per 100,000. Table
for Chart
+ For females,
the peak is at 18 years of age, 19.04 per 100,000.
+ In the years
before 17 the rates are similar for males and females.
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This presentation is a method of examining
cumulative risk over a lifetime as a person ages from 1 to 75. The data
on the
cumulative findings represent the accumulated, summed, risk per
year faced by an individual between the age 1 to 75.

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+ This
chart adds the rates cumulatively from 1 to 75 years of age.
+ The
cumulative rate at age 75 for males was 1119 per
100,000 population. This is a lifetime rate of more than 1 per hundred.
A
male child of one year of age faces a risk 1 in a hundred of dying in a
traffic crash by the time they are 75, based on the risk per year of
age experienced in
2004. (Table
for Chart)
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+ This
chart adds the rates cumulatively from 1 to 75 years of age.
+ After the age of 16 the total risk
for males is much higher.. (Table
for Chart)
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+ This
chart adds the rates cumulatively from 1 to 75 years of age for each
year and represents the rate Per 100,000 at age 75 for that
year.
+ The
cumulative rate at age 75 for males was 1119 per
100,000 in 2004. This is a drop from 1513 in 1991. (Table
for Chart)
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