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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. [3] Per billion vehicle miles, South Carolina had the highest death rate while Massachusetts had the lowest.
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 ...
As of 2019, Mississippi and Alabama lead the rate of motor vehicle deaths in the US by state with 25.2 and 20.6 deaths respectively per 100,000 population. [64] The death rate per 100 million miles traveled in 2015 ranged from 0.52 in Massachusetts to 1.89 in South Carolina. [65] (The Massachusetts rate translates to about 3.25 fatalities per 1 ...
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 ...
Excluding interstate fatalities, the Lone Star State had 1,486 deaths. California had the next highest number, at 1,030. The two were the only states to exceed 1,000 fatalities. LIST: Top 10 US ...
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, more than 12,000 speed-related crashes resulted in fatalities in 2021, the most recent data available, comprising 29% of all ...
The risk of dying as a result of a road traffic injury is highest in the African Region (26.6 per 100 000 population), and lowest in the European Region (9.3 per 100 000). [3] Adults aged between 15 and 44 years account for 59 percent of global road traffic deaths. 77 percent of road deaths are males. [6]
Almost every year prior to 1990 exceeded 750 traffic fatalities. From 1968 (as far back as I could find records) to 1990 we averaged 827 traffic deaths a year, peaking at over 1000 in 1979.