About 107,500 people died of overdoses in the U.S. last year, including both American citizens and non-citizens who were in the country at the time they died, the CDC estimated. That’s down 3% from 2022, when there were an estimated 111,000 such deaths, the agency said. Though the...
Fatalities began to rise two years ago when roads were largely empty due to stay-at-home orders in many states. With less traffic, speeds increased as did reckless and impaired driving, leading to a record spike in deaths last year, authorities have said. Many people weren’t wearing seat ...
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.
In 2023, about 40,999 people died in traffic crashes in the US, raising the question of how many automobile deaths in the US occur each year. This article explores the latest statistics, leading causes, and preventive measures to understand and tackle this critical issue. If you or someone ...
US traffic deaths show sharp increase.doi:10.1136/bmj.i5473MichaelMcCarthyBMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Typing a text or email: +10%. Talking on a cellphone (hands-free): +10%. Using a cellphone to record videos/take photos: +9%. Reading a text or email: +9%. After decades of steady decline in roadway fatalities, U.S. traffic deaths jumped in 2021, and the fatality rate has remai...
21 March 2018 – The current National Road Safety Strategy (NRSS) 2011-2020 has a target to reduce deaths and serious injuries... US Traffic Fatalities Reached a 16-Year High in 2021 18 June 2022 – The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released its early estimate of ...
Rates of road traffic crashes were higher than rates of intentionally caused deaths in almost every instance. Thailand had the highest rate of deaths due to road traffic crashes (16.49 per 1 000 000), followed by Vietnam, Morocco and South Africa (15.12 per 1 000 000, 11.96 per 1 000 ...
Changes that arose from the COVID-19 pandemic and from the street protests associated with the racial reckoning the Summer of 2020, meant that buses ran less frequently, sometimes refused to stop and pick up patients, and sometimes stopped completely due to human traffic during the protests. As...
This paper presents data from a recent cross-sectional survey of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in the US, to understand changes in sexual behavior and access to HIV prevention options (i.e. condoms and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)) during the COVID-19 loc...