California Motor Vehicle Accident Statistics

• California’s motor vehicle-related death rates have generally increased this decade, although the increase was not statistically significant. Age-adjusted death rates for motor vehicle crashes increased overall from 10.9 per 100,000 population in 2000 to 11.9 per 100,000 in 2005.
• Meanwhile, the rate of nonfatal hospital injuries of motor vehicle occupants decreased slightly, from 61.6 per 100,000 population in 2000 to 57.1 per 100,000 in 2005.
• In 2006, the most recent year for which injury data is available, the motor vehicle occupant injury rate decreased again, to 53.9 per 100,000 population.
• Injured motor vehicle occupants included 11,158 males and 8,993 females. Age-adjusted motor vehicle crash death rates for males (16.6 per 100,000 in 2005) were also significantly higher than those for females (7.2 per 100,000 in 2005).
• Data by race and ethnicity show that the highest age-adjusted motor vehicle crash death rates were found for African Americans (13.5 per 100,000 in 2005), followed by Hispanics (13.3 per 100,000 in 2005), and by Whites (11.8 per 100,000 in 2005). The motor vehicle crash death rate was lower for the American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) population (8.0 per 100,000 in 2005), and for the Asian or Pacific Islander (PI) population (7.1 per 100,000 in 2005).

Sources:
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/indicators/goals/Documents/objective1515a.pdf
http://www.applications.dhs.ca.gov/epicdata/default.htm