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  • JillSimpson Do We Tolerate Too Many Traffic Deaths?
    By THE EDITORS

    This holiday weekend marks the beginning of the summer road-trip season, and with it the attention to accident death tolls and pileups. While traffic-related deaths in the United States have decreased in recent years — even though more people are on the road driving more miles — the number still hovers around 37,000 fatalities a year.

    Should the nation work harder to reduce that number? What’s the one thing that could be done to reduce highway deaths?

    Very interesting discussion by a number of experts:

    http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/do-we-tolerate-too-many-traffic-deaths/

    about 1 year ago - Comment