NHTSA Blames First Quarter Increase In Traffic Deaths On Warm Weather

Traffic deaths in the first three months of 2012 jumped 13.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported Friday that its estimate of traffic deaths for the first quarter of 2012 show a 13.5 percent increase.

The estimated increase is the second largest quarterly jump in traffic deaths since NHTSA began tracking deaths on a quarterly basis in 1975 — and the biggest since 1979.