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From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year decreased 15% while the number of deaths per capita decreased by 35%. The 32,479 traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest in 62 years, since 1949. [5] For 2016, the NHTSA reported 37,461 people killed in 34,436 fatal motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day. [6]
U.S. auto safety regulators on Thursday said traffic deaths fell by 3.3% in the first half of 2023 but remain sharply higher than pre-pandemic levels. The National Highway Traffic Safety ...
U.S. traffic deaths jumped 10.5% in 2021 to 42,915, the highest number killed on American roads in a single year since 2005. In 2022, the number of pedestrians killed rose 0.7% to 7,522, the most ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. traffic deaths fell by 3.6% in 2023, the second straight yearly decline, but are still significantly above pre-pandemic levels, auto safety regulators said on Monday.
As of 2019, Mississippi and Alabama lead the rate of motor vehicle deaths in the US by state with 25.2 and 20.6 deaths respectively per 100,000 population. [64] The death rate per 100 million miles traveled in 2015 ranged from 0.52 in Massachusetts to 1.89 in South Carolina. [65] (The Massachusetts rate translates to about 3.25 fatalities per 1 ...
This is a list of U.S. states by road deaths. Data are for the year 2021. Death data are from NHTSA, [1] mileage figures are from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics [2] and population data are from the US Census. [3] Per billion vehicle miles, South Carolina had the highest death rate while Massachusetts had the lowest.
U.S. traffic deaths jumped 10.5% in 2021 to 42,915, the highest number of people killed on American roads in a single year since 2005, while the number of pedestrians and cyclists killed rose to ...
The risk of dying as a result of a road traffic injury is highest in the African Region (26.6 per 100 000 population), and lowest in the European Region (9.3 per 100 000). [3] Adults aged between 15 and 44 years account for 59 percent of global road traffic deaths. 77 percent of road deaths are males. [6]