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Georgia Department of Transportation stated on January 24, 2015 in overhead sign on I-85 South:

"GEORGIA ROADWAY FATALITIES THIS YEAR: 59 PLEASE DRIVE SAFELY"

By Nancy Badertscher• February 2, 2015

Josh Shapiro stated on August 11, 2016 in a platform on his campaign website:

Overdosing is now the number one accidental killer in our Commonwealth.

By Anna Orso• August 11, 2016

Cal Cunningham stated on July 31, 2019 in a tweet:

Says his campaign hasn’t accepted corporate PAC money and isn’t funded by "special interests."

By Paul Specht• November 21, 2019

Phil McGraw stated on April 16, 2020 in a Fox News appearance:

There are “360,000 (deaths) a year from swimming pools. But we don’t shut the country down for that.”

By Bill McCarthy• April 17, 2020

Joel Keehn stated on March 11, 2011 in a blog:

The hour of sleep you lose during the change to daylight saving time might initially pose some health risks.

By M.B. Pell• March 28, 2011

Cavalier Johnson stated on December 21, 2021 in News release:

“In 2021, 65 people in Milwaukee have lost their lives due to reckless driving accidents, and more than 9,000 cars have been stolen, double the amount in 2020.”

By D.L. Davis• February 4, 2022

Glenn Kage stated on September 16, 2019 in a Missouri Times interview:

"General Motors is making record profits."

By Caitlyn Rosen• October 25, 2019

Facebook posts stated on October 17, 2021 in a Rumble video:

There is an “epidemic of plane crashes linked to vaccine-related strokes in pilots.”

By Noah Y. Kim• October 19, 2021

Kyleen Wright stated on December 06, 2011 in a Twitter message.:

Says murder is the chief cause of death for pregnant women.

By W. Gardner Selby• December 26, 2011

Ron DeSantis stated on October 02, 2022 in an interview with CNN:

Lee County, Florida, wasn't "even in the cone" of Hurricane Ian 72 hours before landfall.

By Yacob Reyes• October 4, 2022

John Rodgers stated on January 10, 2020 in an interview with VTDigger:

"And the number one killer of teens in the United States is driving while using cell phones."

By Ellie French• January 17, 2020

Maggie Hassan stated on February 04, 2016 in her State of the State speech :

"Drug overdoses are now the second-most common cause of death in New Hampshire."

By Allie Morris• February 22, 2016

Ashbey Beasley stated on March 27, 2023 in a statement to the media:

“Gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens — it has overtaken cars.”

By Amy Sherman• March 29, 2023

Instagram posts stated on October 20, 2022 in a video:

"When electric cars get in accidents, they explode, they catch fire very very badly because of the lithium batteries.”

By Kristin Hugo• October 25, 2022

Facebook posts stated on June 24, 2024 in a post:

“Actor and comedian Tim Allen died suddenly” in a “fatal car accident.”

By Grace Abels• June 28, 2024

Greg Abbott stated on March 30, 2021 in a tweet:

“Twice as many children are in Border Patrol custody under Biden than Trump peak in 2019.”

By Brandon Mulder• April 6, 2021

Nationwide stated on February 01, 2015 in an ad during the Super Bowl:

"The No. 1 cause of childhood deaths is preventable accidents."

By Steve Contorno• February 2, 2015

Mike Ryan stated on January 14, 2013 in a column in a political blog:

People committed involuntarily for 72 hours under the Baker Act will get their guns back "automatically and immediately upon discharge....and their commitment is never entered into a background check database."

By Amy Sherman• January 25, 2013

Facebook posts stated on January 16, 2023 in a Facebook post:

A video shows wreckage of the recent plane crash in Nepal.

By Ciara O'Rourke• January 23, 2023

Roger Williams stated on November 16, 2016 in an interview with McClatchy's Washington bureau:

"NAFTA allows a lot of trucks from Mexico, for example, to leave there and ... drive straight through without even being inspected."

By W. Gardner Selby• December 5, 2016

Are there more plane accidents happening this year? That’s not what federal data shows

By Loreben Tuquero• February 24, 2025

Checking out Neil deGrasse Tyson’s comparison of mass shootings to other causes of death

By Bill McCarthy• August 7, 2019

PBS News and PolitiFact announce partnership through 2024 election cycle

By PolitiFact Staff • July 12, 2024

How many school shooting incidents has the U.S. had since Sandy Hook? PolitiFact Oregon

By Dana Tims• June 11, 2014

Two ships colliding with bridges in the same week? That’s not unusual, reports show

By Jeff Cercone• April 4, 2024

Immigrant deaths and the science behind temperatures rising inside parked cars, trucks

By W. Gardner Selby• July 25, 2017

What is a recession, and is it tied to stock market declines? What to know after Trump’s tariffs

By Louis Jacobson• April 7, 2025

Fact-checking Joe Biden on a coronavirus vaccine

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• September 17, 2020

Guns, motor vehicles and U.S. deaths, the trend lines

By W. Gardner Selby• November 2, 2015

Speed-reading the health care reform bill?

By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 7, 2009

Missouri informed consent laws found conflicting, controversial and inconclusive

By Katie Parkins, Allie Pecorin• December 21, 2017

Fact-checking claims about Amtrak

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson• May 19, 2015

Barack Obama, Lyndon Johnson, 6.1 billion hours of tax preparation: PolitiFact Oregon Roundup

By Dana Tims• April 15, 2014

Mixed messages, top-rate treatment: Donald Trump’s atypical hospital visit for COVID-19

By Jon Greenberg• October 5, 2020

Fact-checking claims about Amtrak funding

By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson• May 20, 2015

Ask PolitiFact: We’ve seen reports of three train derailments this month. Is this normal?

By Madison Czopek• February 16, 2023

COVID-19 contact tracing for Donald Trump: Who else should isolate?

By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde• October 2, 2020

Fact-checking claims about race after Ferguson shooting

By Jon Greenberg, Linda Qiu, Katie Sanders, Derek Tsang• August 27, 2014

No pants burned, but toilets did flush

By Willoughby Mariano• December 5, 2010

How misinformation about Kobe Bryant’s death spread online

By Daniel Funke, Ciara O'Rourke• January 28, 2020

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