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Iowa Traffic Death Toll For 2021 Reaches 5-Year High

January 03, 2022 Steve Schwaller

(Ames)– The number of deaths on Iowa roadways is at a five-year high in 2021.  The Iowa D-O-T reports 348 people died in traffic crashes.  That is the most fatalities since 2016. 

There were also over 52-thousand car crashes across the state in 2021, up more than five-thousand from 2020.