The population of the United States was 102 percent larger in 2009 than it was in 1950,1 but motor vehicle fatalities, amazingly, were only 1.9 percent higher in 2009 than they were 50 years earlier. Traffic crashes caused 3,615 fewer deaths in 2009 than they did in 2008, and five states recorded more than 200 … Continue reading Highway Safety Initiatives: Crash Deaths Reach Fifty-Year Low: Where Do We Go From Here?