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Motor vehicle fatalities in the United States are reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The NHTSA only reports deaths that occur on public roads, and does not include parking lots, driveways, and private roads. [4] It also excludes indirect car-related fatalities.
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.
In 2020, fatalities increased to nearly 38,680 in the US due to fewer people driving on the road. [9] The same year, fatalities decreased to 18,800 in the EU, due to fewer people driving on the road. [39] That year there was 115% more fatalities in the US than in the EU, or 53% less in the EU than in the US.
The 2022 rural roadway fatality rate for Texas was 2.52 per 100 million VMT — double the fatality rate on all other roads (1.26). The national average was 2.02 for rural roadways and 1.12 for ...
In 2022, 107 of 146 traffic fatalities in the state were tied to an alcohol- and/or drug-affected driver, according to the state Office of Highway Safety. (Statistics for 2023 were not available.)
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.
June 6 – United States – An early morning collision occurred 7 mi (11 km) north of Fayetteville, North Carolina, where a flat bed truck packed with migrant workers pulled in front of a tractor-trailer hauling potatoes. It killed 21 people. At the time, it is the worst traffic fatality accident in U.S. history. [20]
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 ...