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Deaths due to Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries by County, New Jersey, 2018-2020
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Deaths due to Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries by County, New Jersey, 2018-2020
Why Is This Important?
Motor vehicle crashes are the second leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States and in New Jersey.
Definition
Deaths with motor vehicle-related injury as the underlying cause of death. Motor vehicle-related deaths include motor vehicle and motorcycle drivers and passengers, pedestrians, and bicyclists struck by motor vehicles both on roadways in traffic and in other areas such as parking lots and driveways.
ICD-10 codes: V02-V04, V09.0, V09.2, V12-V14, V19.0-V19.2, V19.4-V19.6, V20-V79, V80.3-V80.5, V81.0-V81.1, V82.0-V82.1, V83-V86, V87.0-V87.8, V88.0-V88.8, V89.0, V89.2
Data Notes
- Data have been age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 standard population.
- County is the decedent's county of residence, not the county where the injury occurred.
Data Sources
- Death Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health
(https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/) - Population Estimates, State Data Center, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
(https://www.nj.gov/labor/labormarketinformation/demographics/population-household-estimates/) - Underlying Cause of Death, CDC WONDER On-line Database, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(https://wonder.cdc.gov/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of deaths due to motor vehicle-related injuriesDenominator:
Estimated number of persons in the population
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective IVP-06
U.S. Target: Reduce deaths due to motor vehicle-related injuries to 10.1 per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) by 2030.0
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/injury-prevention/reduce-deaths-motor-vehicle-crashes-ivp-06
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective IVP-13.1
U.S. Target: Reduce motor vehicle crash-related deaths to 12.4 deaths per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) by 2020.0
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/injury-and-violence-prevention
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective IVP-5
NJ Target: Reduce deaths due to motor vehicle-related injuries to 7.1 per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) for the total population, 3.2 for Asians, 9.6 for Blacks, 8.2 for Hispanics, and 6.8 for Whites by 2020.0
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/injury-violence-prevention.shtml