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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 decreased 15% while the number of deaths per ...
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.
The number of deaths per passenger-mile on commercial airlines in the United States between 2000 and 2010 was about 0.2 deaths per 10 billion passenger-miles, [96] [97] while for driving, the rate was 1.5 per 100 million vehicle-miles for 2000, which is 150 deaths per 10 billion miles for comparison with the air travel rate.
These cities include Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston. Drunken driving, distracted driving and speeding are common causes of fatal car accidents. In Memphis, fatal car crashes involving drunken ...
Together, these changes caused the death rate to decline to 1.26 deaths per 100 million miles driven. In 2022, 42,514 people died in crashes, making a death rate of 1.33 per 100 million miles driven.
Almost every year prior to 1990 exceeded 750 traffic fatalities. From 1968 (as far back as I could find records) to 1990 we averaged 827 traffic deaths a year, peaking at over 1000 in 1979.
Texas and California are comparable being the two largest states in the contiguous United States. This perhaps explains why these two states experience higher traffic fatalities than other states. [2] There were more traffic fatalities in California than in Texas till 2007. Since 2017, there have been more fatalities in Texas than in California ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that 40,990 people died in traffic crashes last year compared to 42,514 deaths in 2022. ... -U.S. traffic deaths fell by 3.6% in 2023 ...