One study found an excess 75 traffic deaths per year after retail sales began inColoradoin January 2014, compared with states without similar laws. But it found no similar change in Washington state. The other study looked at those states plus two others that allow recreational pot s...
U.S. traffic deaths rose 7% last year, the biggest increase in 13 years even though people drove fewer miles due to the coronavirus pandemic, the government's road safety agency reported Thursday.
The U.S. traffic fatality rate fell to 1.08 deaths per 100 million miles traveled for the first half of 2018. The fatality rate in 2017 was 1.16 million deaths per 100 million miles traveled -- the second highest rate since 2008. The Governors Highway Safety Association noted that a ...
Preliminary data from the Federal Highway Administration shows that vehicle miles traveled fell 2.1%—roughly 14.9 billion miles—in the first three months of 2021. The agency estimates that there were 1.26 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in thefirst quarterthis year, compared to a ...
In 2020, the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled rose to 1.34, a 21% increase from 2019. When many Americans were in lockdown, road deaths increased even though total vehicle miles traveled fell by 11% from 2019 to 2020, the data showed. Risky behaviors contributed to many...
But both years are expected to still be above pre-pandemic numbers, when Philadelphia saw a spike in traffic-related deaths in 2020. The city also lags behind its large-city neighbors, like Boston and Washington, D.C., when it comes to traffic deaths per 100,000 residents,...
Car crashes area leading cause of death of childrenin L.A., at a rate of 16 deaths per 100,000 kids as of 2019. As adults opt to purchase larger and larger vehicles, this hascome at a huge costto both our kids’ safety and their freedom.Walking to school should not be deadly. ...
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. ...
More than 1.3 million people die each year worldwide. Road accidents are the leading cause of death among children and young people aged between 5 and 29. - In the 27 member states of the European Union, about 23,000 people are killed—51 deaths per million inhabitants—and 1.5 million ar...
As many Americans will remember, roads in Q2 of 2020 were much more deserted than they had been at the start of the year, and the data from this period is even more distressing. Again, the total number of fatalities dropped compared to 2019, but the rate of deaths per vehicle miles...