Transportation
BY APRIL KELLEY
Streak of daily trac fatalities reaches 23 years in Texas
Nov. 7 marked 23 years of daily tra c fatalities on Texas roadways, according to the Texas Depart- ment of Transportation. The gist According to TxDOT, Texas has not had one day without a tra c fatality since Nov. 7, 2000, and more than 83,000 people have lost their lives on roadways since. While there was one day in February which has a single tra c fatality, an average of 12 deaths occur on Texas roadways daily, according to a Nov. 7 news release. “Each life lost means a family, neighborhood and community are impacted for a lifetime, and we take safety very seriously as we work to end this horrible streak,” TxDOT Executive Director Marc Williams said in the release. “But it’s going to take all of us working together to get this done.” A total of 4,481 tra c fatalities occurred in 2022 in Texas, down 16 from the 4,497 that occurred
5K 4K 3K 2K 1K 0 Tra c fatalities 20032023
*AS OF OCT. 6
17.24% increase from 2003-2022.
SOURCE: TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONCOMMUNITY IMPACT
in 2021, according to TxDOT. Tra c fatalities, however, were higher in 2022 than they were in 2020, which saw 3,896 total tra c fatalities. Background TxDOT launched its #EndTheStreakTX cam- paign Nov. 15, 2016, to raise awareness of daily tra c fatalities and to encourage safe driving, with
the goal of ending the daily streak of deaths. TxDOT asks all Texans to: • Make the best and safest decisions behind the wheel. • Don’t drive under the inuence of alcohol and/or drugs. • Always wear a seat belt and obey tra c laws.
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