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Article: Highway safety-everyone's responsibility. (Guest Editorial).(By Mary E. Peters, FHWA Admonistrator)
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- Public Roads
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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In the United States, we truly appreciate the convenience of our world-class highway system and the mobility it provides. Although we are comfortable with our ability to move around and how it helps advance personal and economic goals, it appears that we also have grown accustomed to more than 41,000 highway-related fatalities and greater than 3 million highway-related injuries each year--more than 90 percent of all annual, transportation-related fatalities and injuries. This is a terrible toll and should not be viewed as the "price we have to pay" for mobility. These statistics point to a national safety crisis, indicating a need for us to do more to improve highway ...
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