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LANDLINEMAG: Traffic deaths increased in many states last year, according to preliminary traffic fatality data for 2015. More than 850 people were killed on Missouri roads in 2015, an 11.4 percent increase from the previous year, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. Last year’s traffic fatalities were the most since 2009. Nearly […]
The Alabama Crash Facts Book (CFB) is an annual publication produced in part by CAPS that provides a wide breadth of traffic safety statistics for a variety of constituencies. While most of the users of the CFB are traffic safety personnel, this publication is also intended to serve as a public information conduit. Fatal crashes […]
WASHINGTON – New data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that U.S. driving reached 273.5 billion miles in October 2015, the highest of any October on record, and more than 2.63 trillion miles so far this year. The new data, published in FHWA’s latest “Traffic Volume Trends” […]
USATODAY: If you hit the roads, the skies or the rails this holiday season expect to have a little company: almost one-third of the country to be exact. The number of holiday travelers this year will top 100 million for the first time, the AAA travel organization said Tuesday. Most of those people will be driving […]
CDC: Over 30,000 people are killed in motor vehicle crashes each year in the United States. In 2013, crash deaths resulted in $44 billion in medical and work loss costs in addition to the immeasurable burden on the victims’ families and friends. The fact sheets below highlight the cost of deaths from motor vehicle crashes […]
Governing.com: Nearly 33,000 Americans died on U.S. roadways last year, a figure that has gradually declined in recent years. In certain states, however, fatality tallies are headed in the opposite direction. Updated data for 2014 published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week provides a detailed portrait of the prevalence of various types […]
This report presents the methodology and results of the independent evaluation of safety applications for passenger vehicles in the 2012-2013 Safety Pilot Model Deployment, part of the United States Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems research program. In 2012, the pilot model deployed approximately 2,800 vehicles equipped with designated short-rangecommunication-based vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure technology […]
NBCNEWS: DETROIT — After declining for most of the past decade, traffic deaths spiked 8 percent in the first half of this year, prompting a call from the nation’s highway safety chief to find ways to reduce the human errors that cause most fatalities. The new estimate released Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety […]
NBCNEWS: U.S. traffic deaths fell by 4.2 percent during the first half of 2013, according to preliminary figures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, reversing an unexpected upward surge the previous year. The federal safety agency still estimated that 15,470 people died in all forms of motor vehicle crashes between January 1 and June […]