US Road Death Rate Fell From 5.5 to 1.19 🚗 #Shorts #LessonToday
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Three takeaways
In 1966, 50,894 people died in U.S. traffic crashes, a rate of 5.50 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled.
In 2024 the final rate was 1.19, with 39,254 deaths, even though Americans drove about 3.29 trillion miles, more than three times the roughly 926 billion miles of 1966 (NHTSA).
On September 9, 1966, the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act and the Highway Safety Act became law, and the agency that became NHTSA followed.