Despite Pandemic, Traffic Deaths Did NOT Fall in 2020
Despite Pandemic, Traffic Deaths Did NOT Fall in 2020 Despite a pandemic that limited the travel of most Americans and Iowans in 2020, the state did not see a fall in the level of traffic related deaths last year as hoped. The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that preliminary date from the Iowa Department of Transportation shows that at least 336 people were killed on Iowa roadways in 2020. That is the same number of deaths recorded in 2019. DOT officials say that when the pandemic first began and Governor Reynolds began shutting down businesses, transportation officials were hopeful that would t...
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