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Low-income countries now have the highest annual road traffic fatality rates, at 24.1 per 100,000, while the rate in high-income countries is lowest, at 9.2 per 100,000. [3] Seventy-four percent of road traffic deaths occur in middle-income countries, which account for only 53 percent of the world's registered vehicles.
This is one of the most common types of non-traffic auto collision in which road workers and children 15 and younger are killed. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Rollover, head-on, pedestrian, and bicyclist crashes combined are only 6.1% of all crashes, but cause 34.5% of traffic-related fatalities.
IRTAD participants. The International Road Traffic and Accident Database (IRTAD) is an initiative dedicated to compiling and analyzing global road crash data. It is managed by the International Transport Forum (ITF) under the auspices of its permanent working group, which specializes in road safety, commonly referred to as the IRTAD Group.
In 2022, non-occupant fatalities in traffic crashes reached their highest rate since 1981. On April 1 the NHTSA launched a new "Put the Phone Away or Pay" awareness campaign to reduce distracted ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that 40,990 people died in traffic crashes last year compared to 42,514 deaths in 2022. Fatalities are still much higher than the ...
The number of designated traffic officers in the UK fell from 15 to 20% of police force strength in 1966 to seven per cent of force strength in 1998, and between 1999 and 2004 by 21%. [41] It is an item of debate whether the reduction in traffic accidents per 100 million miles driven over this time [42] has been due to robotic enforcement.
Dec. 16—Traffic deaths are down but incidents of impaired driving and speeding are up statewide this year as law enforcement officials remind motorists to drive sober and stay safe this holiday ...
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]