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Low-income countries now have the highest annual road traffic fatality rates, at 24.1 per 100,000, while the rate in high-income countries is lowest, at 9.2 per 100,000. [3] Seventy-four percent of road traffic deaths occur in middle-income countries, which account for only 53 percent of the world's registered vehicles.
The IRTAD database was originally started in 1988 by Germany's Federal Institution for Roads (BASt) in response to demands for international comparative data. It was later taken over and expanded by the International Transport Forum and has grown to be an important resource for comparing road safety metrics between countries worldwide, although ...
The number of designated traffic officers in the UK fell from 15 to 20% of police force strength in 1966 to seven per cent of force strength in 1998, and between 1999 and 2004 by 21%. [41] It is an item of debate whether the reduction in traffic accidents per 100 million miles driven over this time [42] has been due to robotic enforcement.
This is one of the most common types of non-traffic auto collision in which road workers and children 15 and younger are killed. [14] [15] Rollover, head-on, pedestrian, and bicyclist crashes combined are only 6.1% of all crashes, but cause 34.5% of traffic-related fatalities.
The number of miles driven in 2023 increased to 67.5 billion, while the number of traffic fatalities decreased by 3.6% from 2022. The total number of motor vehicle fatalities has increased ...
The latest data reveals Texas had the most rural roadway fatalities than any other state by far in 2022. Excluding interstate fatalities, the Lone Star State had 1,486 deaths. California had the ...
For example, in 2013, German autobahns carried 31% of motorized road traffic (in travel-kilometres) while accounting for 13% of Germany's traffic deaths. The autobahn fatality-rate of 1.9 deaths per billion-travel-kilometres compared favorably with the 4.7 rate on urban streets and 6.6 rate on rural roads. [13]
According to the Global status report on road safety, road traffic crashes take the lives of nearly 1.3 million people every year, and injure 20–50 million more. [3] More than 90% of road traffic deaths and injuries occur in low-income and middle-income countries, which have only 48% of the world’s registered vehicles.