Traffic fatalities in Missouri rose in 2022 for the third year in a row, with preliminary data showing one-thousand-28 people died on Missouri roads. It’s the highest number of deaths since 2006. Since roughly six out of ten fatal crashes involve a person not wearing a seatbelt, Jon Nelson with the Missouri Department of Transportation says hundreds of lives a year could be saved if everyone buckled up. Nelson says the difference seat belts and car seats make is directly related to the way cars are designed to crumple in case of a crash – calling it the “room to live phenomenon.”
Nelson says speeding, and distracted and impaired driving are responsible for a significant number of traffic fatalities. He cites speed and other aggressive driving maneuvers as factors in roughly half of all fatal crashes, and stresses that speeding includes not only exceeding the speed limit but driving too fast for road conditions.
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