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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]
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 ...
The list includes notable accidents with at least 5 deaths, which either occurred in unusual circumstances, or have some other significance. For crashes that killed notable people, refer to the list of people who died in traffic collisions. This list records crashes from the year 2000. For earlier crashes, see list of traffic collisions (before ...
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 ...
The city had the highest number of fatal car accidents involving distracted drivers in the study, 5.42 per 100,000 residents. It also ranked third for the total number of fatal car accidents, with ...
The ConsumerAffairs report contains deadly and non-deadly accident data for cars, light trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans. Each city and state were ranked by the number of car crashes per ...
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In contrast, other developed countries tracked by the International Transport Forum saw a median decrease of 77% in fatal crashes, with Spain experiencing the largest reduction. On a population-adjusted basis, Spain had 86% fewer car crash fatalities in 2021 compared to 1991.