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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.
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]
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 ...
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.
May 28—In approximately the first five months of this year, the state of Hawaii tallied 36 traffic-related fatalities, five more than the same time period last year. Of the 36 fatalities the ...
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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 ...