According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the most dangerous month to drive is August and the most dangerous day to drive is Saturday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mnw9uiYggU
Car crashes kill 40,000 people in the U.S. each year; they are the No. 1 cause of death for people between the ages of 1 and 34.
The simple fact is, getting behind the wheel of a car is the riskiest thing most people do every day, says Russ Rader, a spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
But since fatal crashes happen in “ones and twos” scattered across the country, the general public doesn’t realize their collective toll–about 110 people per day, nationwide.
“If a hundred-seat airplane were crashing every day in the U.S., the air transportation system would be shut down with demands for the government to do something,” Rader says. “But that doesn’t happen with auto crashes.” (Forbes)
As for the most dangerous time of the day, you guessed it, rush hour.
According to the IIHS, an average 6.6 people are killed between the hours of 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., and another 6.6 between the hours of 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Those rates are the overall highest of any time during the day.(Forbes)
It's a pity really and hopefully we can change these statistics.
We should, at a minimum, stop accepting these as acceptable.
