Traffic Fatalities
U.S. traffic deaths fell 2% in 2019, the third straight yearly drop
Traffic deaths in the U.S. fell for the third consecutive year in 2019, the government's road safety agency reported. The downward trend is continuing into this year with people driving fewer miles due to the pandemic, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday. The decrease came even though vehicle miles traveled increased by nearly 1%, reducing the fatality rate to 1.1 per 100 million miles traveled.
Pedestrian and bicyclist deaths rise in 2018
But overall traffic fatalities fell to their lowest rate since 2014.
IIHS study: higher speed limits led to 36,000 extra deaths
IIHS looks at the effects of increasing speed limits from 1993 to 2017
U.S. vehicular fatalities top 40,000 in 2018 for third straight year
National Safety Council says the number is up 14 percent from four years ago.
WHO: Traffic injuries are leading killer of children and young people
Report says there are 1.35 million annual traffic deaths worldwide.
A teen driving with other teens is deadlier for everyone on the road
The chance of a fatality rises dramatically.
Despite slight improvement, 2017 was another deadly year for pedestrians
Nearly 6,000 pedestrians were killed by motorists in 2017.
Why pedestrian death rate is shooting up, and how to save more lives
Pedestrian deaths in the U.S. are climbing at an alarming rate, jumping 46 percent since reaching a low point in 2009, according to federal data. Now, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety identifies some trends behind the numbers and offers some recommendations.
Pokemon Go led to hundreds of traffic deaths, study suggests
The spike in car crashes went away when the Pokemon craze faded.
Speed kills - and now we know it kills as much as drunk driving
It has ideas on how to reduce speeding.