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The National Safety Council’s annual report on traffic deaths estimates that 40,200 people died in U.S. car crashes in 2016, which is up six percent from 2015 estimates, and a total increase of a terrifying 14 percent in just two years.
Additionally, the NHTSA claims that half of traffic fatalities are related to passengers not buckling their seatbelts, and around a third of estimated fatalities involved alcohol or drug impairment, according to The New York Times. The last time annual traffic deaths eclipsed 40,000 people was back in 2007, and despite the advancement of automotive safety features over the last decade, we’re going backwards.
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From:
Annual Traffic Deaths Rose To A Terrifying 40,200 People Last Year
And apparently, even when controlling for vehicle miles driven, the trend is going in the wrong direction (from a comment posted under that article):
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Buried in the actual report (not the NY times article referenced)
“The estimated annual mileage death rate is 1.25 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, an increase of 3% from the 2015 rate.”
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Drive safe out there!!
To prevent complacency, I make YouTube dashcam crash video compilations a regular part of my time-wasting/entertainment diet.
(Good discussion here:
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...war-34103.html)