The number of people killed last year — 35,092 — was a 7.2-percent increase over 2014 and the largest percentage increase in nearly 50 years. Between 2014 and 2015 fatalities increased in almost all categories, including passengers in cars and trucks, pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists, and alcohol-involved crashes. Bicycle fatalities increased by 89, up just over 12 percent, to reach their highest level since 1995. And alcohol-impaired driving deaths increased slightly more than 3 percent, from 9,943 in 2014 to 10,265 in 2015. The big jump in 2015 deaths came in four states — Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington — where fatalities increased by 20 percent.

Source: Washington Post October 05, 2016 16:39 UTC