While the number of pedestrian fatalities has remained stable since 1998 at about 200 a year, 11,000 pedestrians are still injured by cars annually.
According to the highway safety agency, the number of driving fatalities has remained around 42,000 a year for most of the last decade, though it fell to 37,261 in 2008, when gas prices rose sharply and Americans drove less.
"We've spent billions on air bags, antilock brakes, better steering, safer cars and roads, but the number of fatalities has remained constant," said David Strayer, a psychology professor at the University of Utah and a leading researcher in the field of distracted driving.
Despite years of incremental efforts to make vehicles safer – air bags, antilock brakes, pretensioning seatbelts – the number of annual U.S. traffic fatalities has remained above 40,000 for a decade, partly because the total numbers of vehicles on roadways continues to increase.
These figures show that fatalities have remained consistently below this level ever since.
A new report finds that youth use rates and traffic fatalities have remained stable, marijuana arrests have dropped and revenue is flowing in.
"In Colorado and Washington the post-legalization traffic fatality rate has remained statistically consistent with pre-legalization levels, is lower in each state than it was a decade prior, and is lower than the national rate," the DPA writes, citing federal traffic statistics through 2014.
The occupational fatality rate for Latinos has remained the highest in the nation for 15 years.
Despite advances in antibiotic therapy and modern life support, fatality rate of patients with sepsis has remained high worldwide (>30 %) [1, 2].
Despite the use of antimicrobial agents and advanced life-support, the case fatality rate for patients with sepsis has remained between 20% and 30% during the past 2 decades [1, 2].
