According to a study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were 1,209,000 auto accidents in the United States that resulted in an injury in the year 2000. The same study showed that a person is injured in a motor vehicle accident every 10 seconds in the United States, and that someone is killed every 13 minutes. In Georgia along, over 1500 people died in auto accidents in the year 2000.