1989 US Invasion of Panama 1983 US Invasion of Grenada United States of America vs Grenada Grenada, the southernmost island nation in the Grenadines in the Caribbean, is a tropic island known as the spice island thanks to the harvesting of nutmeg. It had been a British colony since 1763, bu...
In this July 1, 2016 file photo, drivers work their way out of Dallas during rush hour. The U.S. government's road safety agency says traffic deaths fell by a small amount for the second straight year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration attributed the 2.4% drop partially to...
Road safety has seen a slight improvement in the US during 2019 compared with 2018. According to data from the National Safety Council (NSC), fatalities from road crashes in 2019 dropped 2% to 38,800 when compared to data from the previous year. This shows a continuing drop in road deaths...
After decades of steady decline in roadway fatalities, U.S. traffic deaths jumped in 2021, and the fatality rate has remained high in subsequent years. The latest official data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows U.S. traffic deaths jumped by 10.5% in 2021, ...
Friday. By comparison, 43% of fatalities occurred on the weekend. To get these results, data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s fatality analysis reporting system (FARS) was used to find the most dangerous time of day for pedestrians and the percentage of pedestrian ...
Annual Person-Hours of Highway Traffic Delay per Auto Commuter –“the extra time spent during the year traveling at congested speeds rather than free-flow speeds in the peak periods” [4,9]; Travel Time Index –“the ratio of travel time in the peak period to travel time at free-flow ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 31,785 people were killed in crashes from January through September last year, down 0.2% from the same period of 2021. The agency also estimates that fatalities dropped slightly in the third quarter of the year, the second straight...
Spring fatalities from the 1918 flu were similar to the seasonal flu, but after the virus followed troop deployments overseas during WWI, it resurged in the fall with deadly vengeance. October of 1918 was the worst single month of the pandemic, claiming almost 200,000 American lives....
On the second stop of his latest Mideast trip — his 12th since the Israel-Hamas war erupted last year but first since the weekend ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad — Blinken saw Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan late Thursday to try to bring...
Deaths involving a large truck fell 2%, while traffic fatalities among people 65 and older fell 9%. The agency said it has data showing that speeds increased through the year, and examples of extreme speeding became more common. Preliminary data from the Federal Highway Administration shows that...