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GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. — Late one night last year on the western edge of Colorado, a car careened off a cliff and landed at the bottom of a ravine.
Traumatic injury is the top killer of children and adults under the age of 45, claiming a life approximately every three-and-a-half minutes. Five states in the West have no Level I trauma centers; three other states have just one or two.