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Gas prices curb U S traffic deaths in historic shift
A Michigan study links record gas prices to a sharp drop in U S traffic fatalities, with March and April declines of 22.1 and 17.9 percent as drivers cut nonessential trips, slow down, and change routes. The pattern suggests gasoline costs are reshaping travel and could push deaths below 37,000 this year, the first since 1961, while public transit enjoys renewed use.
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