Lytx Inc., the global leader in video safety and video telematics, released its fifth annual “State of the Data” report for trucks and vehicle fleets. Leveraging the Lytx Driver Safety Program and over 36 billion miles of new driving data (over 221 billion miles total) captured through Lytx’s DriveCam Event Recorders, 2022 showed a decrease in overall risky driving even as miles driven increased. Report findings also highlight the significant influence that time of day, day of week, road conditions, and specific road segments played in risky driving behavior and collisions.
Risky driving behaviors can come with immense costs to life and property. In fact, The National Safety Council estimated that comparing pre-pandemic 2019 to 2022, the death rate on American roads increased nearly 22%. However, there is reason for hope based on the annual report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which estimated that there were 31,785 traffic fatalities in the United States in the first nine months of 2022. While tragic, this was a decrease of 100 compared to the same period in 2021, even as the Federal Highway Administration showed that vehicle miles traveled in the first nine months of 2022 increased by around 39 billion miles.
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“Over the last four years, due in large part to COVID-19 and global supply chain disruptions, we have experienced unprecedented changes in driving behaviors,” said David Riordan, Lytx’s Executive Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise. “Only through data is there objective and actionable understanding. We hope that by sharing the findings in this report, derived from extensive data from the Lytx Vision Platform, we can help fleets celebrate their wins in 2022, as well as provide insights to help them save money, time, and most importantly, lives.”
RISKY DRIVING
Looking at data from 2019-2022, roads continued to be extremely dangerous as traffic returned to pre-pandemic levels last year. According to NHTSA, fatalities showed signs of leveling off in 2022 but remained elevated after two years of dramatic increases. However, at the same time, drivers utilizing Lytx technology and safety programs continued to show long-term improvements in safe driving, resulting in a significant drop in risky driving and collisions per mile traveled in 2022, compared to 2019.
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Positive trends in driving behavior: Overall risky driving decreased in 2022
- In 2022, overall risky driving improved by a significant 29% over 2019 (the last “normal year” before COVID-19 related disruptions). As Lytx’s technology continues to evolve and deliver new innovations to detect risk, it also provides clients with the highest level of configurability, which helps clients drive down risks through a combination of coaching workflows and automated driver self-improvement with MV+AI in-cab alerting.
- The Lytx Risk Score for 2019 was 18.3, while in 2022 it improved to 12.9.
- Collisions per 1,000,000 miles driven also dropped, resulting in a 23.1% decrease from 2019 to 2022.
According to the data and analytics, as traffic returned to pre-pandemic levels on the roads, drivers showed measurably safer and more attentive driving habits, resulting in fewer collisions per miles driven.
Powering the Lytx Risk Score, Lytx captured more than 14 million risky driving incidents within vehicle fleets in 2022. Roadways and behaviors were examined and measured using Lytx’s proprietary risk-scoring system, which calculates behavior averages across a variety of industries using driving data from Lytx’s global database.
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