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Transportation experts, highway safety experts, and families of those lost in deadly crashes are calling for safer rural roads to prevent tragedy.

More people died on Texas roads in the first five months of the year than during the same period in 2020, according to a database maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation. The 1,636 people killed in crashes through May represent a 14% increase over the same time period last year. In the seven-county Austin area, the number of people killed on roads this year is about the same as it was this time last year, according to TxDOTs Crash Records Information System. / / In Travis County...

In Montgomery County, Maryland, a woman was struck by a car and killed while crossing a busy, six-lane road in April — four years after her husband was killed trying to cross the same road. In Denton, Texas, two children and an adult died this month in a head-on crash after a vehicle crossed the center lane and slammed into oncoming traffic on a stretch of highway where there is no median or divider and there have been multiple fatal crashes.

In yet another example of the pandemic’s ripple effect across our lives, people are reporting that they’ve forgotten certain aspects of driving. Some no longer recall routes that were once muscle memories. Others are nervous about driving in the dark or even operating at the speed limit.

By ANGELA HAUPT | Special To The Washington Post | Published: May 17, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. On a Sunday afternoon in early May, Robert Johnson backed out of his garage, preparing to visit his companys office — a place he hasnt driven to regularly since before the coronavirus pand...

RETAIL By Noe Garcia | Thursday, May 6, 2021 Rodeo Drive is flourishing once again. The famous stretch of retail road in Los Angeles is, like many other places, emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic. “Business has doubled compared to this time last year,” Rodeo Drive Committee President Nicola Cagliata said. “Our boutiques are now open for regular business hours with extended capacity. Windows are refreshed with new collections and our customers are venturing out. They’ve b...

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The first traffic death on Aug. 26 happened just before 7 a.m. A man was making a left-hand turn out of an apartment complex in West Austin; he was killed after his car collided with a Jeep Cherokee. Later that day a bicyclist ran a red light and collided with a driver heading south on Highway 183. Two minutes later another bicyclist was killed, this time after a driver rear-ended him. A total of 94 people died on Austin roads last year, marking the highest number of traffic deaths in the city ...