Car-Crash Death Rate Surged in 2020

Last year, stay-at-home orders to combat COVID-19 cleared the roads of congestion. Fewer competing vehicles should have made driving safer—but instead, the rate of fatal crashes climbed as unimpeded speed demons put the pedal to the metal.

Car-Crash Death Rate Surged in 2020

Story by Jo Craven McGinty
January 8, 2021

Issue
Speeding and Aggressive Driving