Title: DOT Releases Preliminary 2003 Highway Fatality Estimates

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Section/SPIG: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services

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NHTSA annually collects crash statistics from 50 states and the District of Columbia to produce the annual report on traffic fatality trends. The final 2003 report, pending completion of data collection and quality control verification, will be available in August 2004. Summaries of the preliminary report are available on the NHTSA Web site at:

<http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/hot/pressdisplay.cfm?year=2004&filename=FFARSrls404.html>.