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Motor Vehicle Injury
About 90 people die each day in the United States from motor vehicle crashes (CDC ). Strategies to prevent these deaths include increasing use of child safety seats, safety belts, and motorcycle helmets, and reducing alcohol-impaired driving.
Task Force Findings
Summary Table
This summary of CPSTF findings to reduce motor vehicle injury can be used as a reference, included in presentations, or shared with colleagues.
Implementation Resources
Implementation Products
CDC’s Health Impact in 5 Years (HI-5) Initiative
HI-5 highlights non-clinical, community-wide approaches that have evidence reporting 1) positive health impacts, 2) results within five years, and 3) cost effectiveness and/or cost savings over the lifetime of the population or earlier. The website features links to implementation resources and success stories that can help communities get started.
Presentations and Promotional Materials
Community Guide In Action: Stories from the Field
Lowering Legal Blood Alcohol Limits Saves Lives
Tightening the Belt: Increasing Occupant Restraint Use on the Hopi Reservation
What Works – Fact Sheets
Motor Vehicle-Related Injury Prevention
One Pagers
Publicized Sobriety Checkpoint Programs
Community Guide News
Developed by The Community Guide in collaboration with CDC's Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention
From Research to Policy: Lessons from a Community Guide Review on Alcohol-Impaired Driving Laws
Multicomponent Interventions with Community Mobilization Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving
Universal Motorcycle Helmet Laws Recommended to Reduce Deaths and Injuries
Developed by The Community Guide
Media Outreach
CDC Press Release: Ignition Interlocks Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving
Developed by The Community Guide in collaboration with CDC’s Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention
CDC Newsroom Formatted Article: Ignition Interlocks – A Proven Means for Preventing Impaired Driving Re-Arrests 
[PDF - 161 kB]
Developed by The Community Guide in collaboration with CDC’s Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention
Slides and Presentations
Using Evidence for Public Health Decision Making: Motor Vehicle-Related Injury Prevention [PDF - 320 kB]
Developed by The Community Guide
Public Health Grand Rounds: The Science Base for Prevention of Injury and Violence
Hosted by CDC
