Given that more than 30,000 people are killed annually by auto accidents in the United States, the costs of these crashes can quickly become overwhelming, especially when you add the emotional trauma to victims' friends and families to the monetary costs.
But from a strictly fiscal sense, the costs are high. In 2005 alone, the
As a tie-in to the United Nations General Assembly's proclamation that 2011 to 2020 shall be known as the
According to CDC's data analysis, 10 states in particular combined for half of all nationwide crash death costs.
Those states with the highest medical and work loss costs were: California ($4.16 billion), Texas ($3.50 billion), Florida ($3.16 billion), Georgia ($1.55 billion), Pennsylvania ($1.52 billion), North Carolina ($1.50 billion), New York ($1.33 billion), Illinois ($1.32 billion), Ohio ($1.23 billion) and Tennessee ($1.15 billion).
Below is a list of the costs for all 50 states, listed alphabetically. Click on a state to link to its fact sheet.
Total Cost: $1.07 billion
Total Cost: $74 million
Total Cost: $1.10 billion
Total Cost: $618 million
Total Cost: $4.16 billion
Total Cost: $623 million
Total Cost: $263 million
Total Cost: $107 million
Total Cost: $3.16 billion
Total Cost: $1.55 billion
Total Cost: $124 million
Total Cost: $253 million
Total Cost: $1.32 billion
Total Cost: $883 million
Total Cost: $388 million
Total Cost: $433 million
Total Cost: $871 million
Total Cost: $969 million
Total Cost: $159 million
Total Cost: $576 million
Total Cost: $394 million
Total Cost: $1.04 billion
Total Cost: $527 million
Total Cost: $881 million
Total Cost: $1.07 billion
Total Cost: $205 million
Total Cost: $245 million
Total Cost: $387 million
Total Cost: $143 million
Total Cost: $651 million
Total Cost: $435 million
Total Cost: $1.33 billion
Total Cost: $1.5 billion
Total Cost: $111 million
Total Cost: $1.23 billion
Total Cost: $700 million
Total Cost: $422 million
Total Cost: $1.52 billion
Total Cost: $79 million
Total Cost: $1.01 billion
Total Cost: $156 million
Total Cost: $1.15 billion
Total Cost: $3.50 billion
Total Cost: $281 million
Total Cost: $73 million
Total Cost: $863 million
Total Cost: $665 million
Total Cost: $342 million
Total Cost: $751 million
Total Cost: $137 million
