Traffic deaths in the United States fell to their lowest total in five years in 2006, and the rate of deaths per miles traveled dropped to a record low, a federal safety official said Monday. Highway crashes killed 42,642 people last year, said Nicole Nason, administrator of the National ...
If the United States matched percentage declines of 6 additional countries, US deaths would have declined by more than 20000.If US traffic deaths had declined by the same percentage as in any 1 of 7 other countries, more than 20000 fewer Americans would have been killed in 2011....
Pedestrian traffic deaths declined last year for the first time since theCOVID-19 pandemicbut remained well above pre-pandemic levels, the Governors Highway Safety Associationsaid in a news release Wednesday. In 2023, drivers struck and killed 7,318 people in the United States, according to prel...
Interestingly, the parts of the world where traffic deaths are the highest also report the lowest cancer fatalities, researchers found.The Atlanticexplains: “The data of death is really more like a picture of the way we live. It is lower-income and developing countries where auto fatalities ...
New York is not only grappling with rising motor vehicle fatalities, the state is also among the top 10 states with the most DUI arrests.
For perspective, while in 2010 the number of roadway deaths in the United States stood at 32,885, the lowest level since 1949, that number increased to more than 37,400 in 2016. The introduction of ride-hailing services in 2011 accounted for a roughly 3 percent annual increase in auto dea...
LONDON, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 600 people were killed by police in the United States during traffic stops since 2017, with the deaths continuing apace this year, The Guardian reported on Thursday. A review of national police violence data showed that encounters with police during traffic ...
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At least 42,500 persons were killed in traffic accidents in the United States during 1983. That many deaths must be placed in some kind of perspective: This preliminary figure for 1983 approximates the entire number of American ground forces personnel—US Army and Marine Corps members— killed ...
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.