NHTSA Fatality Counts for 2005

<img width="160" height="89" align="left" src="http://www.baltimorespokes.org/images/articles/20060825134852950_1.gif" alt="">43,443 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes
- a 1.4% increase from 2004
- highest level killed since 1990

<a href="http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/PPT/2006/810639.pdf">http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/PPT/2006/810639.pdf</a>;