The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) states that deaths of children under 13 in car crashes have declined since 1975, but crashes still cause one of every four unintentional injury deaths in this age group. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) states that 32 people in the U.S. die in drunk-driving crashes every day. That’s one person every 45 minutes. In 2020, 11,654 people died in alcohol-impaired driving deaths, which was a 14 percent increase from 2019. According to…
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently shared some good news. According to preliminary estimates of the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) 2019 data, there continues to be a decline in traffic fatalities. Traffic fatalities decreased between 2017 and 2018, and seem to…
As the nation continues to struggle against COVID-19, people are ready for good news. A recent special report from the Road Ecology Center at U.C. Davis in California provided just that. According to the report, California traffic crashes have gone down since Governor Gavin Newsom’s…
A number of states have legalized the recreational use of marijuana over the past several years. Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have passed laws legalizing it in some form, but only ten states and the District of Columbia now allow recreational use. Researchers…
