Transportation - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:46 - 0 Comments

More than 41,000 killed in highway crashes

Traffic deaths in the United States declined last year, reaching the lowest level in more than a decade, according to a government report. An estimated 41,059 people were killed in highway crashes, down by more than 1,600 from 2006. It was the lowest number of highway deaths in a year since 1994, when 40,716 people were killed. The fatality rate of 1.37 deaths for every 100 million miles traveled in 2007 was the lowest on record, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in its report.

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