Expand / An truck on Route 93 at Canton, MA, rolled on Dec. 7, 2020. (charge: Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe through Getty Images)
Motor vehicle traffic crashes murdered 36,096 individuals in 2019, based on new information in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). That is a two percent decrease in the 2018 amount plus also a continuation of a decades-long tendency toward safer streets.
Traffic deaths appeared in the late 1970s, with over 50,000 people dying annually. Ever since that time, yearly deaths have normally been trending downwards.
Progress on street safety observed a short change between 2014 and 2016, when deaths climbed from 32,744 into 37,806. But since that time, the amount has dropped three years in a row– even although it is still not under the record highs of the early 2010s.
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