The first automobile crash in the United States occurred in New York City in 1896, when a motor vehicle collided with a pedal-cycle rider (Famous First Facts, by Joseph Kane). More than 49,000 pedal-cyclists have died in traffic crashes in the United States since 1932-the first year in which estimates of pedal-cyclist fatalities were recorded. The 350 pedal-cyclists killed in 1932 accounted for 1.3 percent of the 27,979 persons who died in traffic crashes that year. In 2004, 725 pedal-cyclists were killed and an additional 41,000 were injured in traffic crashes. Pedal-cyclist deaths accounted for 2 percent of all traffic fatalities, and pedal-cyclists made up 1 percent of all the people injured in traffic crashes during the year. The number of pedal-cyclist fatalities in 2004 was 10 percent lower than the 802 fatalities reported in 1994. The highest number of pedal-cyclist fatalities ever recorded in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) was 1,003 in 1975.


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