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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 ...
The freeway from I-95 to I-91 was completely open by 1969. Old Route 9 south of Middletown was re-designated as Route 9A (later to be designated as Route 154). Several options were considered and then later abandoned for the freeway portion through Hartford and points north. By the mid-1960s, a Route 9 freeway alignment through Hartford was ...
March 2 – United States – Imperial County car crash. 13 people were killed and 13 others wounded when an SUV and a semi-truck collided in Imperial County, California. March 2 – Bolivia – Colomi bus crash. A bus traveling along Route 7 fell into a ravine, [312] killing 21 people and injuring 17.
Still, traffic and deadly accidents continued to increase each year on the turnpike, and by the 1990s the Connecticut Turnpike had started to become known as "the Highway of Death". [12] Furthermore, while most of the turnpike is signed as I-95 or I-395, the highway was designed and built before the Interstate Highway System was established.
The K Factor also helps calculate the peak-to-daily ratio of traffic. K30 helps maintain a healthy volume to capacity ratio. [3] K50 and K100 will sometimes be seen. K50 and K100 will not use the 30th highest hourly traffic volumes but the 50th or 100th highest hourly traffic volume when calculating the K factor.
The crash comes as law enforcement agencies around the world have been on edge this holiday season after an anti-Islam activist plowed his car into a Christmas market in Germany last week, killing ...
Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call the CHP's Baldwin Park office at (626) 338-1164 during business hours or the Los Angeles Traffic Management Center at (323) 259-3410 after hours.
A traffic collision in Japan, 2007 The aftermath of an accident involving a jackknifing truck, Mozambique, Africa. A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.