Propel ATL, a nonprofit focused on metro Atlanta traffic safety, says traffic crashes killed more people in the core five metro counties than homicides.
In their new report, “The Human Cost of Mobility: 2024,” Propel ATL said that traffic deaths in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties surpassed homicides, even though “homicides are often heavily covered by news outlets while traffic fatalities are often treated as background noise.”
The report from Propel ATL said that in 2024, there were about 410 homicides, but 425 deadly traffic crashes in the five counties analyzed…