In today’s Minneapolis Star and Tribune you’ll find a story about the near-record low in freeway traffic fatalities in Minnesota in 2014. Here’s the pertinent chart:
Note that the article also states that “the number of pedestrian fatalities also fell to a 30-year low of 17. The preliminary numbers show that five bicyclists and 45 motorcyclists were killed, also down from the previous year.”
Via Twitter, our own writer (and podcast guest) Alex Cecchini had a few thoughts on this trend:
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We invoke safety a lot (with good reason), but man MN is statistically so much better than other states & yet, at 66 deaths/million residents, we’re still worse than most of Europe http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/pdf/statistics/dacota/bfs2012_dacota-trl-main_figures.pdf …
Alex Cecchini