Despite the reputation the city has for scary traffic and aggressive drivers, new numbers indicate that New York City has a traffic fatality rate among the lowest in the country. <\/p>\n
The statistics, which cover the last two years, will be officially released on Monday by the New York City Department of Transportation, but according to the New York Times<\/em>, the period in question had the lowest numbers of traffic deaths since the city began keeping records about a hundred years ago. <\/p>\n In 2010, the city noted 269 traffic deaths – up five percent from 2009, when traffic fatalities reached a record low. Deaths of pedestrians declined slightly from 156 two years ago to 151 in 2010, which makes the total 21 percent fewer than were recorded in 2001. <\/p>\n According to the as-yet-unreleased report, London, Paris, and Tokyo had even lower traffic fatality rates than New York City. <\/p>\n One suddenly wonders if there’s an inverse correlation between bad traffic jams and traffic-related deaths. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite the reputation the city has for scary traffic and aggressive drivers, new numbers indicate that New York City has a traffic fatality rate among the lowest in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,102],"tags":[370,315,312,313,316,314],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-safety","category-new-york-car-insurance","tag-auto-safety","tag-fatalities","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-record-lows","tag-traffic-deaths","cat-15-id","cat-102-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carinsurancelist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}