
Car Connection reports that the NHTSA shared “preliminary figures for the first three months of 2015” which “show around 7,500 deaths, significantly higher than last year’s estimated 6,850.” Accident fatalities are also up 9.5 percent. “Last year, the US had 0.99 roadway deaths per million miles driven,” the article reports, but “according to NHTSA, the first quarter of 2015 had a rate of 1.04 deaths per million miles.”
From the news release of the American Association for Justice.