Flutterby™! : Traffic deaths up

Traffic congestion saves lives. Automobile deaths are an infrastructure engineering problem: Traffic deaths rose 8% in 2020, even as Americans drove fewer miles during pandemic

The nonprofit National Safety Council estimates in a report issued Thursday that 42,060 people died in vehicle crashes in 2020, an 8% increase over 2019 and the first jump in four years.

Plus, the fatality rate per 100 million miles driven spiked 24%, the largest annual percentage increase since the council began collecting data in 1923.