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News Featured Stories News Releases Safety Stats- January 12, 2022 1201
If there’s one time we’d recommend using our systems, it’s during your commute home on that busy highway you have no choice but to take.
Though you may be sitting in traffic for a while, it’s still possible to get scratched, side-swiped, rear-ended, or even worse–so who wouldn’t want a good set of sensors to get through that?
With the help of ATRI, we’ve compiled the top 5 busiest highways in the U.S. (as of 2021) that are sure to have you sitting and seething. That is, if you make it home unscathed.
5. Houston, TX: I-45 at I-69/US 59
Though up 53.7% in peak average speed from the year before... -
- October 20, 2021 112
Stemming from a change in driving habits and a post-lockdown increase in drivers on the road, vehicular crashes in the first quarter of 2021 were the highest since around 2009.
It’s thought that the emptier roads during the lockdowns encouraged drivers to drive faster and pay less attention, two behaviors which seem to have followed drivers to the more crowded highways of 2021.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, around 8,730 people died in vehicle crashes in the first 3 months of 2021--an increase of 10.5% from the same period of time in 2020 (which saw 7900 fatalities)....
