traffic deaths
Highway mortality statistics
Traffic deaths are fatalities resulting from motor vehicle accidents—collisions, pedestrian strikes, and other roadway incidents.
The term appears frequently in safety statistics and policy discussions: Traffic deaths have declined since seatbelt laws took effect.
Also called road deaths or traffic fatalities.
- fatalitiesLosses of life
- crashSudden violent impact
- collisionForceful contact between objects
- hit and runLeaving after causing accident
- accidentUnintended harmful event
highway · highway patrol · roadway · speed limit · pedestrian · ghost bike · victims · casualties · wreckage · speeding · distracted driving · drunk driving · drunk driver · impact · manslaughter · memorial · white crosses · crosses
- mortalitydeceased, mortality, mortality rates, dying, dead
- transportation issuescongestion, gridlock, road safety, train delays, flight delays
- trafficcongestion, gridlock, bumper to bumper, bumper-to-bumper, stop and go
traffic, deaths, death, deadly, trafficked, trafficking, trafficker, traffickers