road deaths
Highway mortality toll
Road deaths are fatalities resulting from traffic accidents—people killed in collisions involving cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, or pedestrians.
The term appears most often in statistics and policy discussions: Road deaths have declined since seatbelt laws took effect.
Also called traffic fatalities or road traffic deaths.
- fatalitiesLosses of life
- fatal crashCollision causing death
- crashesSudden violent impacts
- accidentsUnintended harmful occurrences
- highwayMajor road for travel
collision · hit and run · traffic · victims · casualties · speeding · speed limit · drunk driving · drunk driver · texting while driving · pedestrians · wreckage · impact · sirens · memorial · white cross · mangled · tragedy
road deathsminor injuries
near misses · close calls · uninjured · walking away · unharmed
road deathsroad safety
Preventing highway harm
traffic safety · accident prevention · injury prevention · collision avoidance · crash prevention
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