The Transportation Department said Thursday that traffic deaths fell 9.7 percent in 2009 to 33,808, the lowest number since 1950. In 2008, an estimated 37,423 people died on the highways.

The Department of Transportation announced Thursday that the number of people killed in highway crashes last year was the lowest since 1954. Factoring in the number of miles traveled, it was the ...

In 1956, the U.S. Congress introduced the Federal Aid Highway Act, the largest public works project in American history to that point. It called for the construction of 41,000 miles of the ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Amor Towles about his latest novel, The Lincoln Highway. Set in 1954, it's about a teenager, his younger brother and a road trip that goes awry.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says there are still too many deaths but credits the decline to more people wearing seat belts, programs to discourage drunken driving and cars ...

In the 1950s and 60s, Interstate 95 was constructed through Providence, displacing city residents and cutting neighborhoods apart. In sheer numbers, this piece of infrastructure, running the length of ...

The treacherous traffic crossing at the intersection of Highway 41 and Highway 46 has seen scores of deadly collisions over the decades.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. highway deaths have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1950s. The Transportation Department said today that its projections show traffic deaths declined nearly 9 percent in ...