California's Transportation System

Jun 7, 2018 - Driving Fatalities Climbing in Recent Years After Sharp Decline In 2015, vehicle crashes in California caused 3,176 fatalities and 251, 000 i njuries —averaging to about one fatality every three hours and one injury every two minutes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3860

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Transportation

Dec 21, 2018 - Consistent with that, research suggests that the trend towards smaller, lighter vehicles (such as driven by federal fuel economy standards) has correlated with increased crash frequency but has not resulted in increased fatalities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/report/3912