The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) 2011 crash data highlight a number of milestones.
- In 2011, the United States recorded the fewest traffic fatalities in 63 years: 32,367 deaths in 2011 compared to 30,246 in 1949.1
- Highway fatalities declined 26 percent between 2005 and 2011.2
- The 32,367 people killed on U.S. highways in 2011 represented a 1.9 percent decrease from the 32,999 who died on U.S. roadways in 2010 and marked the sixth consecutive year that highway deaths declined.3
- The fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled achieved a historic low of 1.10 in 2011.
