Vehicle crashes cost Americans $340 billion in one year
estimation, doesn't actually fully illustrate the costs of car crashes to society. When quality-of-life factors are included, the figure balloons to $1.4 trillion. And it's all preventable. Lost market and household productivity: $106 billionCongestion caused by crashes, including travel delay, excess fuel consumption, greenhouse gases, and criteria pollutants: $36 billion.Further, NHTSA says that each of the 36,500 fatalities recorded in 2019 accounted for $1.
"This is an encouraging trend, and is even more impressive in light of the increased population and generally rising rates of travel over time," the report said.
"Initial indications are that COVID's impacts were complex, reducing travel due to the economic shutdown, but enabling more due to less traffic congestion," NHTSA said."These impacts may be temporary, but the long-term impact of COVID on workplace habits, specifically by normalizing telecommuting, may have more significant implications for traffic crashes in future years."
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