While Texas has the most total crash fatalities of all the states, New Mexico ranks first in the nation as the state with the highest proportion of fatal crashes involving distracted drivers.
Border Patrol Agent Raul Gonzalez Jr. began working for CBP in 2011.
Despite many fewer vehicle miles driven, traffic deaths are on pace with 2019 levels.
The National Safety Council calls on federal leadership to reduce deaths in vehicle crashes.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has found that traffic fatalities fell 2% in 2019, and early 2020 estimates show another 2% decline, though vehicle miles traveled this year dropped 16.6% year-over-year.
The police helicopter involved in a crash that killed two Virginia state troopers near Charlottesville earlier this month had previous mechanical problems.
A lineman for the City of Danville, Va., was responding to a power outage in an elevated bucket truck when the accident occurred.
A Chattanooga, Tenn., school bus driver was arrested after a bus crash resulted in the death of six children.
A fiery crash involving a City of Three Forks (Mont.) fire truck and pickup truck that killed six was the result of a mechanical failure, investigators said.
PHOENIX – Redflex Traffic Systems removed all mobile photo enforcement vehicles operated by Redflex employees in Arizona after the April 19 murder of a Redflex employee by an angry motorist.
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