Reducing the risk for injury while traveling for Thanksgiving holidays.
Each year in the United States, motor-vehicle crashes result in approximately 40,000 deaths and 3.2 million nonfatal injuries. In 2000 during the Thanksgiving holiday, motor-vehicle crashes killed approximately 500 persons (US Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, unpublished data, 2000), and resulted in >43,000 hospital emergency department visits.
D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control; D001334:Automobile Driving; D006693:Holidays; D012449:Safety; D014195:Travel