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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 ...
Pressed Steel Car strike of 1909: At least 12 people died when strikers battled with private security agents and Pennsylvania State Police mounted on horseback. [50] Eight men died on August 22, including 4 strikers. By the time the rioting was over, a dozen men were dead and more than 50 were wounded. March 9, 1910 – July 1, 1911
There is a considerable and growing gap between the United States and other comparable countries in terms of roadway deaths, with the United States having higher death rates. [5] In 2014, two different U.S. government estimated that there were 33,736 or 32,744 motor vehicle traffic deaths in 2014.
Worldwide, it was estimated that 1.25 million people were killed and many millions more were injured in motor vehicle collisions in 2013. [2] This makes motor vehicle collisions the leading cause of death among young adults of 15–29 years of age (360,000 die a year) and the ninth most frequent cause of death for all ages worldwide. [3]
At least 850 murders along America’s highways over the past few decades have been linked to long haul truck drivers, according to the FBI Highway Serial Killings initiative.
Terry Schoonover (USA) [28] November 11, 1984 Atlanta Journal 500: Atlanta International Raceway: Race Chevrolet Rick Baldwin (USA) [29] [note 7] June 14, 1986 Miller American 400: Michigan International Speedway: Qualifying Ford Grant Adcox (USA) [31] November 19, 1989 Atlanta Journal 500: Atlanta International Raceway: Race Oldsmobile
[There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e., people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying); the 100–240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [29]].
This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at diplomatic missions of the United States, or incidents outside of the United States in which a number of U.S. citizens were killed. Domestic deaths due to war in America are included except the American Civil War.