A red traffic light stands in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington September 30, 2013. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Last year 35,092 people were killed in traffic crashes in the United States, a 7.2 percent increase over 2014 that ended a five-decade trend of declining fatalities, the U.S. Transportation Department said.
Data “showed traffic deaths rising across nearly every segment of the population,” the department said in a statement.
(Reporting by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Chris Reese)
