PM1 - Safety
The first of the performance measures rules (PM1) issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) establishes five measures to assess the safety condition of Florida’s public roadways:
- Number of Fatalities: The total number of persons suffering fatal injuries in a motor vehicle crash during a calendar year.
- Rate of Fatalities: The total number of fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in a calendar year.
- Number of Serious Injuries: The total number of persons suffering at least one serious injury in a motor vehicle crash during a calendar year.
- Rate of Serious Injuries: The total number of serious injuries per 100 million VMT in a calendar year.
- Number of Non-motorized Fatalities and Non-motorized Serious Injuries: The combined total number of non-motorized fatalities and non-motorized serious. injuries involving a motor vehicle during a calendar year.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and Florida’s traffic safety partners are committed to eliminating fatalities and serious injuries, with the understanding that the death or serious injury of any person is unacceptable. Therefore, FDOT has established zero as the only acceptable target for all five of the federal safety performance measures. FDOT reaffirms this commitment each year in setting annual safety targets. Some MPOs have established their own targets for the safety measures .
For information on state safety measures, please click here.
Date of last refresh: 08/29/2025
SOURCES
Fatality and serious injury counts from Signal Four Analytics (S4) database as of March 1, 2025: any figures that include the 2024 data are preliminary at this time and may change with future updates;
Traffic volumes as published by FDOT Transportation Data and Analytics (TDA) Office.