Center for Disease Control: Costs crash deaths to State

The CDC has published a state by state analysis of the fiscal costs of motor vehicle crashes. In Tennessee we lose $1.15 Billion dollars per year due to traffic fatalities. $14 million of the losses are medical costs. The rest is from work loss.

Work loss costs are the total estimated salary, fringe benefits, and value of household work that an average person—of the same age and sex as the person who died—would be expected to earn over the remainder of his or her lifetime. Motor vehicle crash deaths disproportionately affect younger people, who have the potential to contribute to the workforce for many years. Therefore, when a younger person dies, the result is a higher work loss cost.

Read the full report concerning Tennessee at:

http://www.cdc.gov/Motorvehiclesafety/pdf/fatal_crash_cost/tn_costofcrashdeaths.pdf