The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released its early estimates of traffic fatalities for the first half of 2022. More than 20,000 people died in car crashes, an increase of 0.5% compared to the first half of 2021.
This doesn’t seem like we’re doing very well, but this tragic statistic has a silver lining. According to the NHTSA report, road deaths declined in the second quarter of the year for the first time since 2020. Around 10,600 people lost their lives in car crashes from April through June, down 4.9% from the same period in 2021. Quarterly statistics showed that the number of road fatalities had been steadily increasing since the third quarter of 2020 until now.
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