It has been a bad year for fatalities

So Far, 2024 Is Deadliest Year for Traffic Deaths in a Decade

We'll find out why a transit advocacy group says the first quarter of 2024 was the worst for pedestrian fatalities in New York in 10 years.

Fatality Facts 2022: Yearly snapshot - IIHS

Although the U.S. population has grown continuously since 1975, the rate of crash deaths per 100,000 people in 2022 was 38% lower than it was four decades ago.

2024 is probably the worst year of my life : r/Vent - Reddit

AND could not make time for me the day after my dad died, when I have always had her back and have been there for her. I was hired in May and ...

Fatal Car Crash Statistics 2024 - USA Today

The number of fatal car crashes in each state has risen significantly over the last several years. From 2018 to 2022, the number of deadly accidents in the ...

FastStats - Deaths and Mortality - CDC

Number of deaths for leading causes of death: · Heart disease: 702,880 · Cancer: 608,371 · Accidents (unintentional injuries): 227,039 · COVID-19: 186,552 · Stroke ( ...

Dangerous by Design 2024 - Smart Growth America

Dangerous by Design 2024 finds that 7,522 people were struck and killed while walking in 2022, an average of more than 20 per day. As in previous years, ...

The Roadway Safety Problem | US Department of Transportation

Millions more were injured – sometimes permanently – each year. This was the highest number of fatalities since 2005. Line chart shows significant increases in ...

Historical Car Crash Deaths and Rates - Injury Facts

In 2022, the death rate was 1.50 per 10,000 vehicles, a 95% improvement. In 1923, the first year miles driven was estimated, the motor-vehicle death rate was ...

A Brief History of Traffic Deaths in the U.S.

In subsequent years, though, fatality rates plateaued, and then rose during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, the traffic fatality count was about ...

2023 set a record for U.S. heat deaths. Why 2024 could be ... - PBS

An Associated Press analysis of federal data shows that about 2300 people in the United States died in the summer of 2023 with their death ...

Fatality Facts 2022: State by state - IIHS

The number and types of motor vehicle crash deaths differ widely among the 50 states and the District of Columbia. A state's population has an obvious effect on ...

Drunk Driving | Statistics and Resources - NHTSA

... died every year in drunk-driving crashes. ... Tough enforcement of drunk-driving laws has been a major factor in reducing drunk-driving deaths since the 1980s.

Motor vehicle fatality rate in U.S. by year - Wikipedia

Fatalities that result from motor vehicle crashes are the second largest cause of accidental deaths in the United States. Per capita road accident deaths in the ...

Why 2024 is a bad year for air accidents | The Week

Is it "still safe to fly"? That's the alarming question asked by one newspaper as it reported that 2024 has already been "one of the worst ...

More than a million people die on roads every year. Meet the man ...

Today, Sweden has some of the lowest rates of road traffic fatalities in the world, and the story of how the country has strived to bring that ...

Car Crash Statistics: Insight Into the Latest Car Crash Fatality Stats

Factors such as being distracted or disobeying traffic signs have varied over the years. According to the data below, alcohol-impaired crashes ...

Drug Overdose Deaths: Facts and Figures

This was followed by ... Fentanyl involvement in fatalities that also involved prescription opioid drugs has steadily increased since 2014.

Why Are American Drivers So Deadly? - The New York Times

After decades of declining fatality rates, dangerous driving has surged again.

America's car crash epidemic - Vox

It's a public health crisis in any year, and somehow, the pandemic has only made it more acute. Even as Americans have been driving less in the ...

Other fatalities, injuries, and damage associated with other tropical cyclone hazards such as storm surge inundation, rainfall-induced flooding, and tornadoes ...