- cross-posted to:
- fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
Pic taken from roadway.report, an interactive map of all known roadway deaths in the USA.
Fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes are the third largest cause of accidental deaths in the United States. On average for 2024 there were over 100 deaths per day on US roads.
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Go as fast as you want in Montana. Even if you fall asleep and run off the road, there’s nothing to hit.
The map and text in the post are a bit misleading as the map shows the data from 2001 to 2024 and the text only talks about the average for 2024
human deaths
Yes, I think that’s assumed here.
Congrats, they’ve made another map that’s basically just a population map.
Yeah, this really should be deaths per 100,000 residents or 100,000 vehicle miles driven or something. Then we could see where traffic fatalities are above or below average.
As with many things, Mississippi is the worst state for traffic deaths per capita. It’s just more common to notice these in higher population states.
Even then it ends up being a map of where roads are vs where they aren’t. And people are where the roads are.
Well, I would hope there aren’t a lot of traffic deaths in the middle of the woods, but with a map showing rates instead of raw deaths, you could see where the most and least dangerous cities for driving are. This map does not provide that info.
Without knowing much about population density, it would be nice if this graphic had a color scale instead of a solid color
I agree for the graphic but I think the reason for the solid color is that it was never intended as an image but just as an interactive map on the website. You can zoom very far in and see every (half transparent) point. Filtering for all, just driver / passenger death and pedestrian / bike / other deaths and choosing the year interval (2001-2024 as default) are nice extras
Having driven in a few of those red splotchy areas(FL TX), I can confirm the traffic is bad, but the drivers are insane. Running every stop light by 10 seconds plus, and every other bad driver habit. It’s not a surprise that those are high fatality areas. There was an intersection behind where I used to work. There was almost a daily crash from people running the red light.
