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Statistics

These figures are awareness context. They are sourced from federal and Maryland traffic-safety reports. We share them so the scale of unrestrained-occupant fatalities is plain — not to imply causation by any single program.

Year-over-year reduction

Maryland made progress between 2022 and 2023

2022

0

2022 unrestrained fatalities

2023

0

2023 unrestrained fatalities

0%

Decrease

Unrestrained-occupant fatalities in Maryland fell from 146 in 2022 to 115 in 2023 — a 21% decrease in deaths across the state.

Sources: NHTSA Annual Report Files (US) and Maryland Department of Transportation traffic-safety reports. 2024 figures are provisional. 2025 figures are not publicly available at the time of this writing.