The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
has found that three main behaviors lead to traffic accident fatalities.
They are the following:
Speeding: More than 11,000 fatal crashes involved at least one driver charged with speeding or police documentation of racing in 2020, up 17 percent from the previous year.
Drinking and Driving: Accidents in which at least one driver had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 or above caused more than 11,500 accidents in 2020, up 14 percent from 2019.
No Seatbelt: Fatalities involving one or both drivers not wearing their seatbelts rose 14 percent from 2019 to 2020, playing a role in almost 11,000 deaths.
Out of almost 36,000 fatal crashes in the U.S. in 2020, more than half involved at least one of these three behaviors. More than 1,500 fatal crashes involved all three behaviors.