- When it comes to traffic fatalities, Washington leads the nation in year-over-year increases.745 people were killed on the roads in the state in 2022. That is an increase from 670 deaths in 2021, 574 deaths in 2020, and 538 deaths in 2019.Governor...
The goal of Vision Zero is to reduce fatalities to zero by designing roads and altering driver behavior to slow traffic speeds and limit conflicts between cars and pedestrians. The program was first introduced in Sweden in 1997, where it led to a 67% drop in traffic-related deaths, according...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. traffic deaths fell 3.1 percent in the first six months of 2018, according to preliminary figures released on Wednesday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also reported that for all of 2017 traffic deaths fell by 1.8 percent to 37,133 after tra...
That’s up from about 750 deaths in 2022. Since 1968, Washington has only surpassed 800 traffic fatalities in a year 12 times, and 10 of those instances were before 1980, Stineman said. Skip Ad It’s part of a troubling trend that has emerged in the past decade: ...
This resulted in an excess of 26.4 deaths per year on rural freeways in Washington State. The total crash rate did not change substantially, rate ratio 1.1 (95% CI, 1.0–1.3). Average vehicle speed increased by 5.5 mph. Speed variance was not affected by the speed limit increase. ...
But in the developing world, traffic deaths are on the rise. Across all countries, traffic kills more than 1.2 million people a year — a number set to triple by 2030,The Washington Postreported, based on the most recent Global Burden of Disease study. ...
"We have the tools to change this, we need to make 2022 the year we take bold action to reach the achievable goal of zero deaths in our state," said Debra Kegan, executive director of the New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition. Safety must become before volume as the priority on New Jersey...
There were no other occupants in the two vehicles, State Patrol Trooper Kelsey Harding said in a post on X. Local News December 28, 2024at 6:00 am New penalties for negligent WA drivers in 2025 Distracted by a phone call or taking a selfie while driving? As road deaths rise, that kind...
. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicate that approximately one fourth of all traffic deaths among children aged <15 years involved alcohol and that in nearly two thirds of passenger deaths involving a legally drunk driver, the child was in the car driven by the ...
Nearly 43,000 people died in U.S. traffic crashes in 2021, the highest number in 16 years, with deaths due to speeding and impaired or distracted driving on the rise.