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.
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 ...
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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, ...
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Traffic fatalities are up in many states across the country in 2020, including Wisconsin. WisDOT Secretary-designee Craig Thompson and Wisconsin State Patrol Superintendent Tony Burrell analyze traffic data and explain why fatalities are up during a year when traffic volume has been down, due to th...
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Design—specificallyurban design—is also a great way to reduce pedestrian traffic fatalities, Furth says. "Urban planning recognizes that where people want to walk, you've got to make it safer, and where people don't want to walk, you don't put a store there." ...
In January 1995, a bold new national goal was established to reduce alcohol-related traffic fatalities in the United States of America to no more than 11 000 by the year 2005. It is well known that a combination of effective laws, highly publicized enforcement, public information and education...
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 ...