Motor Vehicle Deaths in Japan, 2012 - How much is it in Tokyo?

5821 people died by car accidents in Japan, 2012. Proportion of pedestrian is the biggest, 2298 walkers were killed by cars. The following shows the number of deaths by car/bike accidents.

	2010	2011	2012
Pedestrian	2418	2352	2298
Bicycle rider	1088	991	873
Motorcycle rider	1050	987	942
Car driver/passenger	1587	1459	1422
Light truck/van driver/passenger	231	191	190
Large vehicle driver/passenger	110	91	85
Bus driver/passenger	4	7	11
Total	6488	6078	5821

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Source is Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

The police also announces the same kind of statistics. But those are for dead persons who died within 24 hours from the accident (and within 30 days). Both are less numbers than the statistics of "Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare". Japanese media usually use less number statistics (police stats). Wikipedia topic List of motor vehicle deaths in Japan by year also refers less number stats.

Here are the statistics by the police.

	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Died within 30 days	6,067	5,831	5,806	5,507	5,237
Died within 24 hours	5,197	4,968	4,922	4,663	4,411
Died on day 2 - day 30	870	863	884	844	826
Injured	945,703	911,215	896,294	854,610	825,396
Seriously injured	56,818	53,710	51,537	48,663	46,665

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You can see the difference between the statistics of the police and the ministry.

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