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.
Between 1980 and 2010, the number of pedestrians killed in traffic dropped steadily in the United States. Then, that trend reversed. In fact, pedestrian traffic deaths reached a 40-year high in the United States in 2022. But this is a uniquely American problem, according to Northeastern Univer...
"We cannot allow this to become the status quo." 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 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also reported that for all of 2017 traffic deaths fell by 1.8 percent to 37,133 after traffic deaths rose sharply in the previous two years, according to final figures. The U.S. traffic fatality rate fell to 1.08 deaths per 100 million ...
Pedestrian deaths due to road crashes have been increasing in recent years. Fatalities among pedestrians had been on a downward trend between 2001 and 2009, but then began rising substantially. In 2022, pedestrian deaths reached their highest number over the past twenty-year period. In that year...
The numbers of traffic accidents and deaths declined by 10.4 percent and increased by 2.7 percent respectively, while the numbers of severe and slight injuries decreased 6.4 percent and 27.1 respectively against the same period last year. On average, in the first half of this year, Vietnam saw...
1. What difficulty does the company Tesla Motors have? A.The company lacks confidence to make new creations. B.New inventions may cause more injuries and deaths. C.The software should be made officially acceptable. D.The traffic regulation (规定) has proved unreasonable. ...
the pandemic,with preliminary Federal Highway Administration data showing a 1.6% increase in vehicle miles traveled in the first nine months of last year. As a result, the estimated fatality rate for the period fell to 1.3 deaths per 100 million miles traveled, compared with 1.32 a year ...
The number of fatalities recorded in road traffic accidents in the EU is estimated to be around 25,000 in 2017, corresponding to 50 fatal accidents per million inhabitants. Cyprus has lowest number of cyclist deaths in EU Residence of Rawalpindi should discourage their underage kids for driving...
Motor vehicle deaths in December 1998 totaled 3,810, in increase of 2% from the December 1997 total of 3,720. The preliminary death total for 1998 is 42,500, 2% lower than the 1997 total of 43,200. Disabling injuries through December 1998 are estimated to be nearly 2.3 million. A map...