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Memorial Day weekend is coming. And with it are warnings of roads packed with autos and dangerous driving conditions. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is one of the groups issuing warnings.
The NHTSA emphasized road dangers noting that 42,915 people died in crashes in the U.S. in 2021. It’s a 10.5% jump over 2020’s total of 38,824, and the highest reported number since 2005.
In 2019 the fatalities totaled 36,355.
Street, road and highway deaths rose in 44 of the 50 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. They’re all projected to see even more deaths on streets and highways in 2022.
Texas had the most deaths at 4,573.
The PIA Western Alliance state of California was second with 4,258. Florida was third with 3,753 deaths.
Russ Martin of the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) said, ”An increase in dangerous driving — speeding, distracted driving, drug- and alcohol-impaired driving, not buckling up — during the pandemic, combined with roads designed for speed instead of safety, has wiped out a decade and a half of progress in reducing traffic crashes, injuries and deaths.”
As noted earlier, the NHTSA broke down deaths and increases for each state. Here are the stats for the nine PIA Western Alliance states:
Washington 2020 fatalities — 560 2021 fatalities — 652 Percentage of changes — 16.4%
Oregon 2020 fatalities — 508 2021 fatalities — 599 Percentage of change — 17.9%
Montana 2020 fatalities — 213 2021 fatalities — 243 Percentage of change — 14.1%
California 2020 fatalities — 3,847 2021 fatalities — 4,258 Percentage of change — 10.7%
Idaho 2020 fatalities — 214 2021 fatalities — 286 Percentage of change — 33.6%
New Mexico 2020 fatalities — 398 2021 fatalities — 479 Percentage of change — 20.4%
Nevada 2020 fatalities — 317 2021 fatalities — 386 Percentage of change — 21.8%
Arizona 2020 fatalities — 1,054 2021 fatalities — 1,123 Percentage of change — 6.5%
Alaska 2020 fatalities — 64 2021 fatalities — 67 Percentage of change — 4.7%
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