Birmingham Injury Blog

Matt Elofson of the Dothan Eagle reported recently that the fatalities in Alabama due to car and truck wrecks has declined:

Alabama Governor Bob Riley said last month in a statement that early numbers showed about a 17 percent decrease in fatal crashes across Alabama over the same period. Riley said 2008 became the safest year to travel in more than two decades with 633 people killed during traffic crashes investigated by state troopers. There were 766 people killed in 2007 on Alabama highways investigated by state troopers.
According to a statement from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, early estimates showed fatalities across the country to have dropped by about 10 percent in 2008. Those estimates showed 31,110 people died on the nation’s roads from January to October 2008, compared to 34,502 in 2007, during that same 10-month time period.

There are several reasons given for this - higher gas prices and a crackdown on speeding and not wearing seat belts.

Its obvious but when we don't speed and when we wear our seat belts, fewer fatalities happen.

Let's all put into practice what we know and drive safer while wearing our seat-belts.

(Thanks to the Alabama Injury Attorney Blog for alerting us to this interesting article).