The holiday season is reving up. Soon some of the busiest holidays will be upon us. On the Thanksgiving weekend, the busiest of all holidays for road traffic, 91% of those traveling are doing so in an automobile.

For as often as people casually do it, getting into an automobile is the most dangerous activity a person does each day. Dying in an automobile crash is the #1 cause of death in those 1-34 years of age. On average 110 people die each day in an automobile crash.

The most dangerous day of the week to drive? Saturday – when on average 143 people die in a traffic accident. The most dangerous time of the day to drive? At night. While only 49% of traffic fatalities are at night, miles driven are only one third of daytime miles – meaning it is three times as dangerous to drive at night.