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It also excludes indirect car-related fatalities. For more details, see Transportation safety in the United States. From the beginning of recorded statistics until the 1970s, total traffic deaths in the United States generally trended upwards, except during the Great Depression and World War II. From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year ...
March 2 – United States – Imperial County car crash. 13 people were killed and 13 others wounded when an SUV and a semi-truck collided in Imperial County, California. March 2 – Bolivia – Colomi bus crash. A bus traveling along Route 7 fell into a ravine, [312] killing 21 people and injuring 17.
Comparing motorways (controlled-access, divided highways) in Europe and the United States, according to 2012 data, Denmark had the safest motorways with a rate of 0.72 road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km, while the United States had 3.38 road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km on its Interstate-type highways, often called freeways. [29]
It has a large share of deadly speeding accidents — 62.5% of driving fatalities in this upstate New York city in 2021 were speed-related, with almost 9.5 speeding fatalities per 100,000 people ...
September 21 – United States – Alton, Texas bus crash – A truck hit a school bus in Alton, Texas, and the bus fell into a caliche pit filled with water killing 21 students. [ 124 ] September 22 – Yugoslavia – At the level crossing in Pojatno , a passenger train on the Zagreb - Varaždin route, travelling at a speed of 80 km/h (49.7 ...
Road deaths per billion vehicle miles (2021) 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.
These are some common crash types, based on the total number that occurred in the US in 2005, the percentage of total crashes, and the percentage of fatal crashes: [13] Rear impacts (1,824,000 crashes, 29.6% of all US crashes, 5.4% of US fatal crashes) Angle or side impacts (1,779,000 crashes, 28.9% of all US crashes, 20.7% of US fatal crashes)
The causes listed are relatively immediate medical causes, but the ultimate cause of death might be described differently. For example, tobacco smoking often causes lung disease or cancer, and alcohol use disorder can cause liver failure or a motor vehicle accident. For statistics on preventable ultimate causes, see preventable causes of death.