Tulsa World
By Ashley Jones October 9, 2022
State authorities are taking time out amid a spate of near-daily fatal crash reports to talk about how simple measures can prevent many of these deaths.
The 2021 statistics show a 17% increase in fatal crashes from 2020, according to Oklahoma Highway Safety Office analyst Amy Graham, who has finalized much of the most recently available data.
“These fatalities do not have to happen, and that’s why we don’t call them accidents,” Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Eric Foster said in a Tulsa World interview earlier this week. “These are crashes where someone made a decision, and that decision had unfortunate consequences.”
A total of 66,074 crashes were investigated in Oklahoma in 2021, according to Graham’s data. Of the 681 crashes that involved at least one death, 762 people were killed.
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