{"id":504909,"date":"2010-04-02T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=18208"},"modified":"2010-04-02T11:02:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T15:02:15","slug":"nhtsa-numbers-show-continued-decrease-in-road-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/504909","title":{"rendered":"NHTSA Numbers Show Continued Decrease in Road Fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/NHTSA-decreased-fatalities-graph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18217\" title=\"NHTSA decreased fatalities graph\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/NHTSA-decreased-fatalities-graph-440x132.jpg\" alt=\"NHTSA decreased fatalities graph\" width=\"440\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Safest. Year. Ever.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic fatalities in 2009 were the lowest recorded  according to preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety  Administration (NHTSA). Last year&#8217;s fatalities are projected to total 33,963,  down 9 percent from 2008\u2019s figure of 37,261. We\u2019re not exactly sure how they can  estimate fatalities\u2014there&#8217;s a brief and vague explanation of the process at the link below\u2014but the numbers are good news. The end of 2009 also marks  the 15th consecutive quarter of declining deaths; the last time quarterly  fatalities went up compared to the previous year\u2019s quarter was January\u2013March  2006.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-18208\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even more encouraging is the fact that the rate of  fatalities has declined. We could all stop driving and laud the savings of  lives, but then it would be really difficult to get pizza delivered to your door  (not that we advocate pizza delivery over personal safety). Total miles driven  increased 0.2 percent to 6.6 billion miles. That means there are 1.16 fatalities  per 100 million vehicle miles driven, down from 1.25.<\/p>\n<p>NHTSA doesn\u2019t speculate in its preliminary summary about  why fatalities are down, but a logical guess would be that increased safety  standards and safety features like stability control and airbags are continuing their spread throughout the entire market.<\/p>\n<p>The full report, sans gory details, can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov\/Pubs\/811291.PDF\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No related posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safest. Year. Ever. Traffic fatalities in 2009 were the lowest recorded according to preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Last year&#8217;s fatalities are projected to total 33,963, down 9 percent from 2008\u2019s figure of 37,261. We\u2019re not exactly sure how they can estimate fatalities\u2014there&#8217;s a brief and vague explanation of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6412,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}