300 People Have Died On Minnesota Roads This Year
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - The death of a 29-year-old man in a Hubbard County rollover crash Friday marked the 300th death on Minnesota roads this year.
Traffic fatalities have actually fallen in recent years. and there are 33 fewer deaths so far this year than were reported this time in 2013, according to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
Deaths on Minnesota roads have decreased dramatically from a high of 1,060 in 1968, but there haven't been fewer than 300 deaths in a calendar year since 1922, when the Model T was still in production.
- 2004 – 567
- 2005 – 559
- 2006 – 494
- 2007 – 510
- 2008 – 455
- 2009 – 421
- 2010 – 411
- 2011 – 368
- 2012 – 395
- 2013 – 387