Do you know how many car crashes occur in the city of Dallas located in Dallas county Texas each year? How many of those car crashes involve a driver or passenger getting seriously injured? How many of those car accidents becoming fatal? How many fatal car crashes occur in Dallas Texas each year?
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles keeps car crash statistics each year and posts them on their website for everyone to view.
Let’s take a look at some of the car crash statistics for the city of Dallas in Dallas county Texas for the year 2010.
Within the city of Dallas and the surrounding suburbs there was almost 36,000 car crashes in 2010. Just over 18,000 of those were non injury wrecks. These were just minor fender benders where no one was injured. Over 1600 car accidents were of unknown severity.
This leaves just under 18,000 car crashes where someone was injured – seriously injured and non seriously injured.
There were 168 fatal car crashes leading to 181 fatalities in Dallas county in 2010.
These data show that If you are involved in a car crash, there is approximately a 50% chance that you will be injured in the accident.
The leading causes of car accidents in Texas are failure to control speed and inattentive driving – distracted driving. These could be your drivers eating, texting, talking on the phone, posting to Facebook while driving, putting on makeup, etc – all distracted driving that can lead to an untimely death.
Practice safe driving habits – keep your eyes on the road, keep your hands on the wheel at all times and obey the speed limit.
You can avoid being the next car crash statistic for Dallas county Texas.