Traffic Deaths by Municipality in Japan (2000)

9,066 persons died as a result of traffic accidents in Japan in the year 2000, the fifth consecutive year that this figure has remained under 10,000. The situation remains serious, as both the number of accidents and those injured has increased significantly over the previous year, breaking past records. Since 1995, Institute for Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis has carried out comparisons of the number of deaths per 10,000 people in municipalities throughout Japan. This data is used in the traffic safety activities conducted by local governments, organizations, and groups all over the nation. Fatalities (died within 24 hours as are result of accident) shown in tables are divided into accidents that occurred on surface roads and those that occurred on expressways. Fatalities per 10,000 people has been calculated using the number of traffic deaths on surface roads as a base, and have been listed in order from the highest number.

Prefectures (Unit: Persons)

Aichi Akita Aomori Chiba Ehime Fukui Fukuoka Fukushima Gifu Gunma Hiroshima Hokkaido Hyogo Ibaraki Ishikawa Iwate Kagawa Kagoshima Kanagawa Kochi Kumamoto Kyoto Mie Miyagi Miyazaki Nagano Nagasaki Nara Niigata Oita Okayama Okinawa Osaka Saga Saitama Shiga Shimane Shizuoka Tochigi Tokushima Tokyo Tottori Toyama Wakayama Yamagata Yamaguchi Yamanashi

Summary ·Traffic Accidents in 2000   1999 Comparison Accidents 931,934 81,571 9.6% Fatalities 9,066 60 0.7% Injured 1,155,697 105,300 10.0% "Accidents" results in deaths and / or injuries. ·Average fatalities per city, ward, town, and village   Numbers of municipalities Average fatalities (Previous year) Previous yearcomparison Average fatalities 10,000 people (Previous year) Previous yearcomparison Cities / Special wards 659/23 7.10(7.00) 0.10 0.61 0.60 0.01 Wards of major cities 128 6.09(6.23) -0.13 0.41 0.42 -0.01 Towns 1,990 1.38(1.39) -0.02 1.10 1.11 -0.01 Villages 568 0.59(0.59) 0.00 1.34 1.34 0.00 Nationwide 3,368 2.58(2.58) 0.00 0.69 0.69 0.00 Excluding major cities. ·The larger of the 1,088 municipalities that had zero fatalities. Cities that had zero fatalities: 22 cities Population Koganei City  (Tokyo) 106,481 Joyo City  (Kyoto) 80,803 Inuyama City  (Aichi) 71,640 Kunitachi City  (Tokyo) 70,262 Hamura City  (Tokyo) 55,583 Wards of major cities that had zero fatalities: 2 wards Population Kita-Ku   (Osaka) 85,062 Taisho-ku  (Osaka) 75,128 Towns that had zero fatalities : 700 towns Population Oi-machi    (Saitama) 44,875 Shime-machi  (Fukuoka) 38,036 Yasu-cho   (Shiga) 36,075 Miyoshi-machi  (Saitama) 35,194 Gunma-machi  (Gunma) 34,718 Villages that had zero fatalities : 364 villages Population Fujimi-mura  (Gunma) 21,380 Niisato-mura  (Gunma) 16,194 Asahi-mura  (Niigata) 12,687 Shimoda-mura  (Niigata) 11,793 Kasukawa-mura  (Gunma) 11,653 ·Cities, wards, towns and villages with the largest fatalities per 10,000 people 659 cities & 23 wards Population Fatalities per 10,000 people Aki City  (Kochi) 22,179 3.16 Nirasaki City  (Yamanashi) 32,386 3.09 Ashibetsu City  (Hokkaido) 21,443 2.80 Bizen City  (Okayama) 29,424 2.72 Iiyama City  (Nagano) 27,433 2.55 128 major cities Population Fatalities per 10,000 people Naka-ku (Aichi) 61,950 1.78 Minami-ku (Kyoto) 91,063 1.43 Shimogyo-ku (Kyoto) 67,806 1.18 Nishi-ku (Osaka) 59,874 1.17 Atsuta-ku (Aichi) 61,516 0.98 1,990 Towns Population Fatalities per 10,000 people Kumanogawa-cho (Wakayama) 2,201 13.63 Kaminakaka-cho (Tokushima) 2,413 12.43 Toyoura-cho (Hokkaido) 5,186 11.57 Kotonami-cho (Kagawa) 3,534 11.32 Sekigane-cho (Tottori) 4,470 11.19 568 Villages Population Fatalities per 10,000 people Oto-mura (Nara) 723 27.66 Kushihara-mura (Gifu) 1,038 19.27 Kitayama-mura (Wakayama) 601 16.64 Miasa-mura (Nagano) 1,256 15.92 Hiraya-mura (Nagano) 668 14.97 Excluding major cities

Notes
1	In calculating fatalities per 10,000 people, the population figures used were taken from the "Zenkoku Shi-Chou-Son -Youran, Heisei-12-Year Version (Ver.2000)".
2	The Hokkaido villages of Shikotan-mura, Tomari-mura (Kunashiri-gun), Ruyabetsu-mura, Rubetsu-mura, Shana-mura, and Shibetoro-mura were excluded from the aggregate figures.
3	Wards include both special wards and those in major cities.

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