New statistics show that Georgia driving fatalities has decreased for another year.  Georgia drivers appear to be driving safer or are they? With another reduction in driving fatalities let us examine some of the potential reasons for this great news.  By the way, way to go Georgians!

“While we wish no one was ever even injured on our highways, we are most gratified by this decline in fatalities,” Georgia DOT Commissioner Keith Golden said. “This dramatic improvement is a direct result of the Department’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan begun in 2006.   “We’re concentrating on raising public awareness and also on engineering and construction improvements – things like improved roadway drainage, center median cable barriers, rumble strips, and driver recovery zones. They are making a difference and saving lives.”

As you can see from the chart interstate fatalities have decreased 6% since last year.  State routes and local routes have fared about the same at 5% and 7%.  Motorcycle fatalities increased this year.  They were up 11%.

The biggest winners in this year’s decrease in Georgia fatalities are the pedestrians.  People out walking on the street had a decrease in fatalities from 143 to 106.  That is great.

I think that more people are aware of individuals crossing the street and know that they must stop their car for these pedestrians.

Why is the Georgia driving fatalities rate decreasing?

One reason may be that we are better prepared.  We are getting more trauma centers around the county and in Georgia.  More trauma centers will save lives.  What happens if Memorial Hospital is completely full with patients? They bring them here anyway and then the patients get the best that we can do but if we’re incredibly busy, we have to spread ourselves then over a number of patients if we brought the entire state up to the average trauma system – we’d save over 600 people’s lives per year, that’s not even counting the people that would have better outcomes in terms of disability,” said William Bromberg.  Others have that figure even higher.  See this post about this topic.

Another reason is the safety of the cars.  When NASA gets involved to make cars safer, then we are moving in the right direction.  See this article about NASA and cars.  They are teaming up with Toyota to determine the causes of the acceleration issues in their newer cars.  As you may remember, Toyota cars, Prius being one, started accelerating without the driver wanting the car to.  Even when the driver pushes the brakes, the car does not stop.  These drivers cause accidents.

Cars are so much safer than they were in the past.  Remember back when people did not use their seat belts before the cars had automatic seat belts?  Things have changed for the better when it comes to driving safety.

The same issue has arisen in our recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  We are suffering less fatalities than in previous wars, but higher numbers of wounded vets.  Since our medical practices are better, we lose less lives.  Perhaps it is the same practice playing out with our trauma centers and better prepared hospitals.

Also, the amount of airbags that come standard issue on new cars now days is like 100%.  The first several cars I owned growing up didn’t even have air bags.  This is the reason I think that things get safer, especially cars.  This could definitely be the reason for the decrease in Georgia fatality rates.

For whatever reason Georgia driving fatalities are decreasing is a good thing.  We have our work cut out for us in 2012 Georgia.  Let us hope that we continue in that direction.  This is a post from attorney Joseph McClelland about Georgia driving fatality rates.

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