Americans travel more on urban roads than on rural roads [1,592,057 million vehicle miles (M VMT) are driven annually in urban areas, compared with 1,033,310 M VMT in rural areas]. However, in 1998, 61% of all U.S. motor vehicle fatalities and 65% of all speeding-related fatalities occurred on rural roads. Two out of every 3 speeding-related fatalities occur in rural areas. Presented here are figures showing the distributions of speeding-related fatalities by road class for rural versus urban areas and graphs indicating speeding-related fatality rates by highway class for rural areas versus urban areas and nonspeeding-related fatality rates by highway class for rural areas versus urban areas. The figures and graphs show 1998 statistics.
Speeding is one of the most prevalent factors related to traffic crashes. The economic cost to society of speeding-related crashes is estimated to be ...
United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2022-09-01 | National Transportation Statistics (NTS)
Abstract:
This edition of Traffic Safety Facts briefly summarizes motor vehicle crash data from 2020 and compares them to the period 2011 to 2020. Among the key...
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