April 10, 2025
Early estimates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for traffic fatalities in 2024 indicate that the number of people who died in traffic crashes will reach the lowest point in five years. The NHTSA estimates project that 39,345 people …
November 20, 2024
The United States must address a growing public-health crisis over traffic deaths that remain significantly higher than pre-pandemic levels, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday. “Unlike most developed nations, U.S. roadways have grown more deadly …
September 6, 2024
The U.S. Transportation Department said on Thursday it is awarding $1 billion for a series of projects aimed at reducing traffic crashes, as road deaths remain sharply higher than pre-pandemic levels. The department separately on Thursday estimated that 18,720 people …
July 9, 2024
Less people died in traffic accidents during the first three months of 2024, compared to the same time the prior year. The quarter looks to be the eighth in a row for a decline in traffic fatalities, dating back to …
March 5, 2024
Street parking was already scarce in Hoboken, New Jersey, when the death of an elderly pedestrian spurred city leaders to remove even more spaces in a bid to end traffic fatalities. For seven years now, the city of nearly 60,000 …
April 5, 2023
Nearly 43,000 people died in U.S. traffic crashes in 2021, the highest number in 16 years with deaths due to speeding and impaired or distracted driving on the rise. The 2021 final numbers, released Monday by the National Highway Traffic …
January 30, 2023
LOUISVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Six people died in upstate New York when a freight truck and an express bus carrying more than a dozen people collided Saturday near the U.S.-Canada border, state police said. Three others were injured, including one …
September 19, 2022
U.S. traffic deaths rose 0.5% in the first half of 2022 to 20,175, the highest number killed in the period since 2006, according to an early estimate released by U.S. regulators. Traffic deaths have jumped after pandemic lockdowns ended as …
August 17, 2022
U.S. traffic deaths jumped about 7% in the first three months of 2022 to 9,560, the highest number of people killed on American roads in a quarterly period since 2002, regulators said on Wednesday in a preliminary estimate. Traffic deaths …
June 8, 2022
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday is holding a hearing on soaring American traffic deaths and efforts to build safer roads. Last year, traffic deaths jumped 10.5% to 42,915 marking the highest number killed on U.S. roads in …