Dear reader, After decades of steady reductions in U.S. road fatalities, the number of lethal crashes has been rising in ...

Traffic deaths fell more than 8% in 2025 — the biggest mid-year drop in over a decade — but impaired and distracted driving remain stubbornly high in some states.

Unlike most other countries, the United States reports traffic deaths as compared to vehicle miles traveled (VMT). But when ...

Biden-era investment in safe streets, shifts in travel patterns brought on by the pandemic, and increased traffic enforcement ...