Just a theory.

- There are 95 people listed on that page. So, perhaps it's 59 motor vehicle + 18 pedestrians + 22 motorcyclists + 1 bicyclist - 5 unpublished names?

- That screwy math then makes all their percentage charts a real crapshoot as to actual numbers.

- I seem to remember more than one bicyclist death last year, but going back through the mailing list it seems that there was only the one /in austin/. One more in Kyle and another near Fredricksburg.

- I'm kind of impressed that, with the population growth since 1995, the trendline on traffic fatalities is down, not up.

- Across the state DPS reports ~50 cyclist deaths/year from 2003-2007.  1 in Austin seems like a pretty good number in relation to that (worse than zero for sure).

Okay, so I misunderstood the numbers listed on the American-Statesman's graphic.  That explains why some of the numbers didn't fit together properly.  Just take a look at their PDF and read _very_ carefully.

I'll try to correct my original interpretations, but you may be best looking at the PDF yourself or doing your own research using raw data:

* There were _95_ traffic fatalities in _Travis County_ in 2008.
* Presumably, of those 95, there were 54 motor vehicle fatalities:  95 total - 1 bicyclist - 18 pedestrians - 22 motorcyclists = 54 unaccounted and therefore, presumably, motor vehicle occupants (4+ wheels)
* The deadliest hour of the day was 2-3am, claiming 17.9% of the total _95_ fatalities, so 17 of the 95 occurred in that hour of the day.  (Average percentage per hour-of-day is necessarily 100/24 = 4.2%.)
* There were no fatalities between 9-10am.
* No one younger than 11 died in traffic in 2008.
* The following only applies to Austin (not to Travis County as a whole):  Of the last 14 years (all of those shown), only two years have had fewer traffic fatalities than 2008 (59):  1999 (55) and 2003 (52).

Thanks to Andy Webb for bringing my misinterpretation to our attention.

Notable, especially for this forum:
* Of the 59 fatalities, 1 was a bicyclist (Chris Davis), 18 were pedestrians, and 22 were motorcyclists.  I think the assumption is that the other 18 fatalities were in motor vehicles (with at least 4 wheels).
* The deadliest hour of the day was 2-3am, claiming 17.9% of the total (though my math shows this to be about 10.56 people).
* There were no fatalities between 9-10am.
* No one younger than 11 died in traffic in 2008.
* Of the last 14 years (all of those shown), only two years have had fewer traffic fatalities, 1999 (55) and 2003 (52).