U.S. traffic deaths fell by 3.6% in 2023, the second straight yearly decline, but are still significantly above pre-pandemic levels, auto safety regulators said on Monday. Fatalities remain much ...

U.S. traffic deaths jumped 10.8% in 2021 to 43,230, the most in a single year since 2005. The number of pedestrians and cyclists killed on American roads rose to the highest number in more than ...

There also was a small second-quarter drop in the traffic death rate per 100 million miles driven, from 1.34 in the second quarter of 2021, to 1.27 this year, Carlson said.

As US traffic fatalities fall, distracted drivers told to 'put the phone away or pay' N'dea Yancey-Bragg. USA TODAY. An estimated 40,990 people died in traffic crashes last year, ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - U.S. auto safety regulators on Thursday said traffic deaths fell by 3.3% in the first half of 2023 but remain sharply higher than pre-pandemic levels. The National ...

Traffic deaths fall for first time since 2019. Posted: May 29, 2025 | Last updated: May 29, 2025. New data shows that in 2024, traffic deaths fell after an upward trend in years prior.

But the government says the number of deaths remains at a crisis level. Estimates from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show that 20,175 people died in crashes from January ...

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - U.S. traffic deaths fell 3.2% in the first three months of 2024 -- the lowest number since the same period in 2020 -- but crash fatalities still remain sharply ...

The death toll in 2023 was a 33-year high, according to the WTSC. Washington's traffic deaths hovered around 550 each year from 2015 to 2020, before deaths spiked to 674 in 2021 and 743 in 2022.