2008 NHTSA Traffic Report

The NHTSA recently published their 2008 Traffic Safety Summary which details the increase or decrease in traffic accidents by type of vehicle. Overall the number of people killed in traffic accidents (-9.7%) or injured (-5.8%) was down. The number of people killed on motorcycles was up (+2.2%), but the number injured was down (-6.8%). The biggest increase was in the number of bicyclists injured in traffic accidents (+21%). Traffic safety has improved greatly since the early 1970’s when 50,000 or more were killed each year when there were far fewer vehicles on the road.