Fatalities last year along Kentucky highways decreased for the first time since 2018. State officials say the 744 deaths reflect a 7.6% drop over 2021. Bill Bell is the director of the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety. He said fatalities jumped up significantly during the COVID surge. Bell said news about highway-related fatalities doesn’t always result in a recognition of their impact.
“It’s become way too commonplace where people don’t even think about it and so my over-arching goal is to make it such that, if it does happen, that people can’t believe that someone died on our highways,” said Bell.
