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Research Letter
August 14, 2024

An Emerging Racial Disparity in US Motor Vehicle Fatalities

Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  • 2National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 3Department of Defense Management, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
  • 4Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
JAMA Surg. 2024;159(10):1218-1220. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2024.2247

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death for individuals in the US younger than 55 years.1 A 2022 study2 found that Black and Hispanic individuals in the US had higher mortality per mile traveled, but temporal trends in motor vehicle fatality disparities are not well understood.

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