I believe that 10.8M accident figure is an estimate counting all kinds of crashes, even the ones not reported to police. 6M police-reported crashes in 2007. 1.

I believe that 10.8M accident figure is an estimate counting all kinds of crashes, even the ones not reported to police. 6M police-reported crashes in 2007. 1.71 million police-reported crashes with an injury. 37,000 traffic fatalities in 2007, 30,862 in 2009. Traffic fatality data is here with only some high-level info about non-fatality crashes: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx