August 28, 2019
Car Accident Statistics While no one likes to imagine being in one, getting into car accidents is an occurrence that happens more frequently than one cares to think. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in 2016 alone, there were 6,296,000 car accidents reported to police in the United States. Of these 6,296,000 reported crashes, 37,461 people involved in said accidents died and 2,443,000 million more people suffered injuries. Given that the NHTSA estimates that approximately 10 million car accidents go unreported each year, the actual death and injury toll of car accidents is likely to be much higher than what is reported in statistics. One reason the injury toll is predicted to be much higher than what…