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An event data recorder (EDR), more specifically motor vehicle event data recorder (MVEDR), similar to an accident data recorder, (ADR) sometimes referred to informally as an automotive black box (by analogy with the common nickname for flight recorders), is a device installed in some automobiles to record information related to traffic collisions.
July 12 – United States – A utility truck carrying asphalt rear-ended a car causing a five-vehicle crash on Interstate 10 just outside of Quartzsite, Arizona killing 6. [ 666 ] July 15 – Argentina – A car collided with a van near Santo Tomé on National Route 14 , killing five.
In Memphis, 25.96 people per 100,000 residents were killed in fatal motor vehicle accidents, the most of any major U.S. city. Detroit and Albuquerque, New Mexico, followed with the highest rate of ...
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]
Automakers reported nearly 400 crashes of vehicles with partially automated driver-assist systems, including 273 involving Teslas, new figures show.
Tesla Inc reported 273 vehicle crashes since July involving advanced driving assistance systems, more than any other automaker, according to data U.S. auto safety regulators released on Wednesday.
Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) was created in the United States by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to provide an overall measure of highway safety, to help suggest solutions, and to help provide an objective basis to evaluate the effectiveness of motor vehicle safety standards and highway safety programs.
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. Mississippi had the most deaths per capita while Rhode Island had ...