WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Last year 35,092 people were killed in traffic crashes in the United States, a 7.2 percent increase over 2014 that ended a five-decade trend of declining fatalities, the U.S. Transportation Department said.

Data “showed traffic deaths rising across nearly every segment of the population,” the department said in a statement.

(Reporting by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Chris Reese)