Best and worst states for highway safety

The group Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety is out with a new report today on state highway safety laws — the best and the worst states.  South Carolina made neither the best states’ list nor the worst states.  Helping to champion safer highway laws nationwide is the Washington District U-S representative, Eleanor Norton Holmes, who chairs a House committee with broad range to improve highway safety. Advocates for Highway Safety and Auto Improvement says that in 2021 U-S traffic deaths spiked to a 16-year high of nearly 43,000 and preliminary data, so far, show the deaths are rising again this year. 101.7/WGOG’s unofficial numbers for Oconee County traffic fatalities in 2021 were 10 deaths; this year, in 2022, with three weeks left in the calendar year, the number is 14 dead.