Category: Analysis & Data

NHTSA Light-Vehicle Safety Evaluation | December 2015

  • December 4th, 2015

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 […]

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After Steady Decline, U.S. Traffic Deaths Leap 8 Percent in Early 2015

  • November 24th, 2015

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 […]

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US traffic fatalities drop sharply, reversing trend

  • November 2nd, 2015

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 […]

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Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Analytical User’s Manual 1975-2014

  • November 1st, 2015

One of the primary objectives of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is to reduce the staggering human toll and property damage that motor vehicle traffic crashes impose on our society. Crashes each year result in thousands of lives lost, hundreds of thousands of injured victims, and billions of dollars in property damage. Accurate […]

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The Geography of Car Deaths in America

The Geography of Car Deaths in America

  • October 20th, 2015

Richard Florida America is famously divided along many lines: red and blue states, high-income and low-income areas, educated and uneducated cities—the list goes on. But, startlingly, America’s political and economic divide extends to fatality rates as well, and specifically to where people are killed in their cars.

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