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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 ...
US safety results are better than Russia, Saudi Arabia or Qatar. [24] Nonetheless the fatality rate in the United States is high relative to most other high-income nations. The 2013 U.S. rate of 7.1 road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km is about double the 2013 rate in Sweden , which was 3.5 road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km.
Aug. 18—A Longmont man accused of causing a fatal head-on crash just north of Boulder in 2022 pleaded not guilty today and was set for trial in March. David Blattner, 52, is charged with ...
A double-decker bus carrying Dutch tourists left the highway on a bend and hit a car and a metal crash barrier before overturning, killing six and injuring 36-44. August 14 – Romania – Scânteia train accident. A bus collided with a train on County Road 248C, killing at least 14. [75]
In that crash, prosecutors argued Walton was drunk and sped into a tree at 91st and Bradley Road on Dec. 10, 2022. A judge gave her 10 years in that matter. More: 50 deadly, 2,000 non-deadly ...
The 25-year-old victim, who came to Erie from Nepal in 2015 and became a U.S. citizen, died in Pittsburgh months after the May 2022 accident.
Speeding and drunk driving contributed to Kylie's fatal car crash. Chris Hartje: 1915 1946 31 years American baseball player bus Snoqualmie Pass Highway (US 10), Washington: Passenger in a bus carrying the Spokane Indians baseball team, which swerved to avoid a wrong-way driver and plunged 300–500 feet down a mountainside. Hartje and eight of ...
In contrast, other developed countries tracked by the International Transport Forum saw a median decrease of 77% in fatal crashes, with Spain experiencing the largest reduction. On a population-adjusted basis, Spain had 86% fewer car crash fatalities in 2021 compared to 1991. [5] There are large disparities in road traffic death rates between ...