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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 TxDOT's Crash Records Information System. / / In Travis County, for example, 53 people have died in traffic crashes since Jan. 1. That's the same as this point i...

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.