More Deaths by Traffic Accidents Than Homicides in 2023: LAPD Chief

The Los Angeles Police Department recorded more deaths by traffic accident than by murders last year, according to Chief Michel Moore. “[In] 2023, [we] saw increases, year over year, and from years earlier, from traffic fatalities, particularly fatal hit and runs and fatal pedestrian and bicycle collisions,” Mr. Moore said Jan. 9. Additionally, he said speeding and distractions were often the cause of the fatal accidents. Data from the department shows that there were 330 fatal traffic accidents in Los Angeles in 2023, while the number of murders trailed close behind at 327. Recent traffic fatalities include a crash on New Year’s Eve that killed a mother and father and their five-year-old daughter by a driver who was allegedly fleeing the scene of another hit-and-run....