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Through May 21, at least 370 people had died on South Carolina roads in 2023, according to the state Department of Public Safety. Last year, 1,091 people died in crashes in South Carolina, DPS ...
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. [74]
In Memphis, 25.96 people per 100,000 residents were killed in fatal motor vehicle accidents, the most of any major U.S. city. Detroit and Albuquerque, New Mexico, followed with the highest rate of ...
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]
In 2020, there were: 25,730 single-vehicle crashes, 57,392 dual-vehicle crashes, and 8,077 crashes involving three or more vehicles (9%) for a total of 91,199 reported crashes. In crashes with three or more vehicles, there were 200 motorists (18% of all motorists) and 17 pedestrians (5% of all pedestrians) killed.
The updated fatality rate for the calendar year 2023 has reached an all-time low of 1.98 per 100 million miles traveled, the lowest rate since 2010 and possibly the lowest ever recorded. In stark ...
The fatal injury rate in 2015 was 14.7 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers in transportation and material moving occupations (which includes both truckers and air transportation workers.) [109] This was a significantly lower rate than for workers in farming, fishing, and forestry occupations, but high compared to most other occupation ...
Nearly 6,000 people are killed every year in the U.S. in weather-related car accidents. AccuWeather explains the dangers.