Tuesday, September 22, 2009

NHTSA: U.S. road fatalities drop to their lowest level since 1982

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Since 1975, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been recording the number of fatalities on U.S. roadways, and with the exception of 1992, that figure has never dropped below 40,000 deaths per year. According to NHTSA's new figures, that changed in 2008, when 37,261 fatalities occurred in the U.S. - a drop of nearly 10% over the previous year and the largest reduction in both number and percentage since 1982.
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