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 fatality rate has steadily fallen for many years, except in 2005, when it rose slightly to 1.46 deaths per 100 million miles traveled. But because Americans have been driving more, the total number of traffic deaths has increased in most years since the early 1990s. More analysis needs t...
Looks at the epidemic of traffic violence and the 2.8 million deaths which have occurred since the first traffic fatality. The first motor vehicle victim; Annual medical costs for people hospitalized in the United States because of traffic related injuries; The National Highway Traffic Safety ...
The latest official data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows U.S. traffic deaths jumped by 10.5% in 2021, and NHTSA’s estimates since then show a similarly high fatality rate. The 2024 index surveyed more than 1,000 consumers and business managers about perce...
losses here. Americans deserve to travel safely in their communities. Humans make mistakes, and as good stewards of the transportation system, we should have in place the safeguards to prevent those mistakes from being fatal. Zero is the only acceptable number of deaths and serious injuries on ...
990 fatalities—representing a dip of 3.6% in terms of million vehicle miles traveled. This decline brings a cautious sense of optimism within the context of persistent traffic-related deaths yet starkly contrasts with a substantial increase of 10.5% in motor vehicle fatalities from 2020 to 2021,...
16 Traffic injuries have received a considerable amount of attention, but the true burden of alcohol is much bigger and goes beyond driving while intoxicated. Programs to educate US residents about the true harms of excessive drinking are needed. Many of the risk factors that contribute to the ...
But pedestrian deaths are sharply outpacing fatalities overall, climbing 25 percent from 2010 to 2015, according to Retting’s research. Total traffic deaths increased about 6 percent over the same period. “We cannot look at distracted driving solely as an in-vehicle issue,” said Kelly Nantel...
The rate of such deaths had been increasing in the two decades before the pandemic, by 7% or less each year. In 2020, they rose 26%, to about 13 deaths per 100,000 Americans. That's the highest rate recorded in at least 40 years, said the study’s lead author, Merianne Spencer. ...
A further complication to this research is that the cause of death noted in the mortality statistics does not always reflect acute cannabis use, as suggested by toxicology results indicating cannabis use in a series of hanging deaths (San Nicolas and Lemos, 2015) in San Francisco. There are ...