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One third of fatal accidents involve alcohol. [5] Deaths from speeding exceeded 12,000, half of which involved drivers not wearing a seatbelt, and a third of which involved male drivers aged 15 to 20. [6] Most deaths were occupants of cars, but 17% were pedestrians, 14% were motorcyclists and 2% were cyclists. [5]
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 ...
For example, in a December analysis of Texas Department of Transportation data, NBC 5 Investigates found that Dallas had experienced 207 traffic fatalities in 2024, an increase from the 205 deaths ...
In contrast, other developed countries tracked by the International Transport Forum saw a median decrease of 77% in fatal crashes, with Spain experiencing the largest reduction. On a population-adjusted basis, Spain had 86% fewer car crash fatalities in 2021 compared to 1991. [5] There are large disparities in road traffic death rates between ...
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 ...
Texas led the nation in rural roadway deaths in 2022. U.S. Department of Transportation has $198 billion backlog of rural road repairs, improvements Texas had more rural roadway fatalities than ...
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 the last 11 years, 73 people have died in car accidents along U.S. 67 in Johnson and Somervall counties, according to data from the Texas Department of Transportation.