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Wrong-way driver in Germany (2017, at center) Many jurisdictions display "Wrong Way" signs at freeway off-ramps to discourage wrong-way driving. Sometimes they are combined on freeway off-ramps with "Do Not Enter" and "One Way" signs. Fatalities caused by wrong-way driving in the United States, from 1996 to 2000.
Statistics show that tired driving causes as many car crash fatalities as driving on slippery roads and the wrong way down a one-way street. Police reports originally estimated that 2.4 percent of ...
There were more than 2,000 deaths nationally from wrong-way driving crashes on divided highways between 2015 and 2018, an average of approximately 500 deaths a year, an analysis of AAA Foundation ...
Only 28 countries, representing 449 million people (seven percent of the world's population), have laws that address the five risk factors of speed, drunk driving, helmets, seat-belts and child restraints. [citation needed] Over a third of road traffic deaths in low- and middle-income countries are among pedestrians and cyclists.
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 capita decreased by 35%.
National Highways figures show 988 incidents involving ‘oncoming vehicles’ were reported on England’s motorways in the year to November 17.
Driving on U.S. Interstate highways, which are almost always controlled-access divided highways, is safer than driving on most other roads and highways. Unlike the large U.S. air carriers and commuter airlines, which on average have less than 20 fatalities annually, each year general aviation fatalities number in the hundreds.
Investigators said the woman driving the wrong way had a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit. The devastating crash killed her as well as the driver of the other vehicle, 41-year-old Michael ...