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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]
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One third of fatal accidents involve alcohol. [5] Deaths from speeding exceeded 12,000, half of which involved drivers not wearing a seatbelt, and a third of which involved male drivers aged 15 to 20. [6] Most deaths were occupants of cars, but 17% were pedestrians, 14% were motorcyclists and 2% were cyclists. [5]
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 ...
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.
This list of countries by traffic-related death rate shows the annual number of road fatalities per capita per year, per number of motor vehicles, and per vehicle-km in some countries in the year the data was collected. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in ...
The 20,160 traffic deaths estimated in the first six months of 2021 were the highest first-half total since 2006 and 18 percent higher than the first half of 2020, according to the latest National ...
As of 2019, Mississippi and Alabama lead the rate of motor vehicle deaths in the US by state with 25.2 and 20.6 deaths respectively per 100,000 population. [64] The death rate per 100 million miles traveled in 2015 ranged from 0.52 in Massachusetts to 1.89 in South Carolina. [65] (The Massachusetts rate translates to about 3.25 fatalities per 1 ...