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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 ...
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.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that 40,990 people died in traffic crashes last year compared to 42,514 deaths in 2022. Fatalities are still much higher than the ...
In the US, in 2016, there were 18590 rural fatalities and 17656 urban fatalities. Thus 48% of deaths were in urban areas, and 52% in rural areas. Taking into account traveled miles, there was a risk of 1.96 fatalities per 100 million traveled miles on rural roads, and a risk of 0.79 fatalities per 100 million traveled miles on urban roads.
An aerial photo of a fatal multi-vehicle crash in Louisiana in 2023. Close to 41,000 people died on U.S. roadways last year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said, a total that ...
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 ...
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 ...
These are some common crash types, based on the total number that occurred in the US in 2005, the percentage of total crashes, and the percentage of fatal crashes: [13] Rear impacts (1,824,000 crashes, 29.6% of all US crashes, 5.4% of US fatal crashes) Angle or side impacts (1,779,000 crashes, 28.9% of all US crashes, 20.7% of US fatal crashes)