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The NHTSA only reports deaths that occur on public roads, and does not include parking lots, driveways, and private roads. [4] 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 ...
The number of deaths per passenger-mile on commercial airlines in the United States between 2000 and 2010 was about 0.2 deaths per 10 billion passenger-miles, [96] [97] while for driving, the rate was 1.5 per 100 million vehicle-miles for 2000, which is 150 deaths per 10 billion miles for comparison with the air travel rate.
Road deaths per billion vehicle miles (2021) This is a list of U.S. states by road deaths. Data are for the year 2021. Death data are from NHTSA, [1] mileage figures are from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics [2] and population data are from the US Census.
And with a population just topping 100,000, its speeding fatality rate comes out to 10.894 deaths per 100,000 residents annually, making it the most dangerous location for speeding in the U.S ...
U.S. traffic deaths fell 3.2% in the first three months of 2024 -- the lowest number since the same period in 2020 -- but crash fatalities still remain sharply above pre-COVID levels. The National ...
April 13 – United States – A FedEx truck with two trailers driving on a freeway in Orland, California drove over a median and entered opposite traffic, striking a sedan which then collided with a chartered bus carrying high school students for a field trip and ignited, killing 10. [187] April 13 – Mexico – Acayucan bus crash.
The United States has the most traffic deaths per capita of any developed country.. In 2020, the coronavirus reduced road deaths worldwide because people were forced to stay home. But the U.S ...
June 6 – United States – An early morning collision occurred 7 mi (11 km) north of Fayetteville, North Carolina, where a flat bed truck packed with migrant workers pulled in front of a tractor-trailer hauling potatoes. It killed 21 people. At the time, it is the worst traffic fatality accident in U.S. history. [19]