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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.

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Illinois Congressional Leaders Introduce Distracted Driving Bill The bill is aimed at reducing crashes involving distracted drivers and preventing roadside deaths through the use of technology and increased public awareness April 30, 2021 Adobe Stock/Michele According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), every day about eight people in the U.S. are killed in crashes involving a distracted driver.  This amounts to roughly 3,000 deaths and 400,000 injuries each year from distracted driving.  About one in five of those deaths involve people outside a vehicle such as construction crews, pe...

After a deadly year on the roads, states push for safety over speed As more Americans start commuting to work and hitting the roads after a year indoors, they'll be returning to streets that have gotten deadlier. Last year, an estimated 42,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes and 4.8 million were injured. That represents an 8% increase over 2019, the largest year-over-year increase in nearly a century — even though the number of miles driven fell by 13%, according to the National Safety Council. The emptier roads led to more speeding, which led to more fatalities, said Leah Shahum, exec...

A version of this article first appeared in Streetsblog. The death rate from car crashes in the US spiked 24% in 2020 compared to the previous year — a historic rise linked to an equally historic reduction in congestion that allowed the remaining drivers to race around recklessly on roads designed to prioritize speed above all else. According to preliminary data from the National Safety Council — a widely respected nonprofit that releases its estimates of annual roadway fatalities about two years earlier than the federal government — about 42,060 people lost their lives to the US traffi...