U.S. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy on Wednesday raised concerns about the increased risk of severe injury and death from heavier electric vehicles on U.S. roads.
The heavier weight "has a significant impact on safety for all road users," she said Wednesday in a speech. "We have to be careful that we aren't also creating unintended consequences: more death on our roads."
Homendy's comments come as the U.S. has seen a sharp rise in traffic deaths since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and U.S. vehicles get keep getting larger on average. U.S. traffic deaths jumped 10.5% in 2021 to 42,915, the largest number killed on American roads in a year since 2005, after rising 7% in 2020, and declined slightly in the first nine months of 2022 but remain high.
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