How is Texas impacted economically? According to the NHTSA in 2000 (the most recent year for which data is available) Texas lost $19.8 billion dollars to our economy due to collisions. The economic cost to Texas, just due to speed related crashes was 3.5 billion. (see chart below)
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Automobile fatalities are the number one
cause of on-the-job deaths. That ends up costing the average employer nearly
$120,000 per employee death.
