There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to prevent vehicle crashes. With more than 240 million Americans getting behind the wheel each year—and an estimated 77 percent of employed Americans commuting each day—unexpected incidents are an unfortunate inevitability.
Even with advances to driving technology coming online in recent years designed specifically to make roads safer—think of the rear-view camera display on your dashboard, as well as parking or lane change assist systems that account for ‘blind spots’—the number of fatal incidents on American roads remains relatively steady year-over-year.
In this blog, we’ll break down how much vehicle crash incidents and fatalities impact the larger economy, and steps that businesses can take to make their driving workforce safer.
