Given that the fatalities in 2020 went up a lot among black Americans, barely budged among white ones and went down a lot among Asian Americans, I consider the

Given that the fatalities in 2020 went up a lot among black Americans, barely budged among white ones and went down a lot among Asian Americans, I consider the above theory to be total bunk (unless somehow only black Americans were benefitting from congestion reduction, while white Americans were as stuck in traffic as ever). https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813118 https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... Given that racial patterns of changes in traffic fatalities match very closely those in homicides since 2020 (where, again, rate of homicide victimization went up a lot among black Americans, and only mildly among whites), I’d rather suspect common reason behind both.