{"id":9974,"date":"2025-12-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=9974"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T10:00:00","slug":"listen-nations-capital-cuts-traffic-deaths-as-rates-rise-across-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=9974","title":{"rendered":"Listen: Nation\u2019s Capital Cuts Traffic Deaths as Rates Rise Across US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LISTEN: Distracted. Reckless. Drunk. Americans\u2019 driving has gotten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2024\/11\/20\/what-the-data-says-about-dangerous-driving-and-road-rage-in-the-us\/\">more dangerous<\/a> since the covid pandemic. Chaseedaw Giles appeared on WAMU\u2019s \u201cHealth Hub\u201d on Nov. 26 to share her reporting on that deadly trend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/traffic-deaths-pedestrian-safety-vision-zero-los-angeles-dot-nhtsa\/\">Traffic deaths have climbed nationwide<\/a> over the past decade. In some major cities, traffic deaths have <a href=\"https:\/\/xtown.la\/2025\/01\/27\/traffic-deaths-in-los-angeles-exceed-murder-total-for-second-consecutive-year\/\">surpassed homicides<\/a>. But this year, Washington, D.C., has recorded a <a href=\"https:\/\/mpdc.dc.gov\/page\/traffic-data\">significant drop<\/a> in these kinds of deaths. Chaseedaw Giles, audience engagement editor with KFF Health News, appeared on WAMU\u2019s \u201cHealth Hub\u201d on Nov. 26 to share her reporting on the ways design and better enforcement can contribute to safer streets.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/trump-fertility-president-baby-bonus-pronatalism-family-aid-policy-reproductive-rights\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISTEN: Distracted. Reckless. Drunk. Americans\u2019 driving has gotten more dangerous since the covid pandemic. Chaseedaw Giles appeared on WAMU\u2019s \u201cHealth Hub\u201d on Nov. 26 to share her reporting on that deadly trend. Traffic deaths have climbed nationwide over the past decade. In some major cities, traffic deaths have surpassed homicides. But this year, Washington, D.C.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}