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US road deaths spiked 18% to 20,000 in 2021′s first half
The Associated Press ^ | October 28, 2021

Posted on 10/28/2021 2:37:07 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

DETROIT (AP) — The number of U.S. traffic deaths in the first half of 2021 hit 20,160, the highest first-half total since 2006, the government reported Thursday.

The estimated number was 18.4% higher than the first half of last year, prompting Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to call the increase an unacceptable crisis.

The department, which includes the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, announced that it will develop a national strategy for steps to save lives on the roads.

““We cannot and should not accept these fatalities as simply a part of everyday life in America,” Buttigieg said in a statement Thursday. “No one will accomplish this alone. It will take all levels of government, industries, advocates, engineers and communities across the country working together toward the day when family members no longer have to say good-bye to loved ones because of a traffic crash.”

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1 posted on 10/28/2021 2:37:07 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, legalized pot is becoming more and more common as more states make it just like alcohol. Why is anyone surprised?


2 posted on 10/28/2021 2:39:00 PM PDT by fwdude (Proudly UNvaxxed )
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3 posted on 10/28/2021 2:41:09 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: fwdude

And more ILLEGALS on our roads.


4 posted on 10/28/2021 2:42:21 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Will be part of Covid deaths


5 posted on 10/28/2021 2:43:08 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How?

The roads in the San Francisco Bay Area were barren...


6 posted on 10/28/2021 2:43:33 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The inflation spike will cause many to forgo vehicle maintenance and parts replacement (including tires, brakes, fluids, etc.), which will lead to even more road accidents.


7 posted on 10/28/2021 2:44:37 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021.)
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Sounds like a ploy they intend to use to try and limit our driving, for climate change ya know. I bet they will make air travel much more expensive too, so the plebes will no longer be able to afford it. Certain things will only be available to the ‘important’ people.


8 posted on 10/28/2021 2:45:25 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“working together toward the day when family members no longer have to say good-bye to loved ones because of a traffic crash”

I guess he’s going to ban automobiles then. That’s the only way you’ll ever get to zero crashes.


9 posted on 10/28/2021 2:47:50 PM PDT by Boogieman
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"Well, legalized pot is becoming more and more common as more states make it just like alcohol. Why is anyone surprised?"
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Slow your roll Reefer Madness, maybe people have started drinking too much alcohol from isolation induced loneliness.

I would chalk this up to people driving so much less during idiotic lockdowns that when they do get in the car they are rusty and make more mistakes. That or it is the 1.5 million newly arrived illegal aliens Creepy Joe Biden opened the border for.

10 posted on 10/28/2021 2:48:11 PM PDT by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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It’s probably partially caused by the ‘vaccinations’.

In the CDC’s vaccine adverse event database, VAERS, there were many cases of cerebrovascular accident. Basically it appears that the clotting caused by the ‘vaccines’ clears by the time you get the patient to the med center for a diagnostic scan. So the damage of a stroke is present, but no stable clot can be found.

I recall thinking the number of ‘family member found on floor’ notes were made in patient records post ‘vaccination’ according to the CDC’s VAERS database.

I have seen a video of a woman in a car with her two children parked beside a freeway, and having a post Covid ‘vaccination’ seizure while lying back at an angle, listening to her young son talk to 911.

Then the ‘vaccines’ cause microclotting and heart attacks.

ALso, there are rumors of 2 specific instances where pilots have had seizures/died post vaccine while flying airliners. NO names given, and on that Internet site a comment was posted saying Pete Buttigieg had made in-flight illness of Pilots classified information.


11 posted on 10/28/2021 2:49:10 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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prompting Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to call the increase an unacceptable crisis.

Supply chain is not a crisis. We must bad cars.

12 posted on 10/28/2021 2:49:50 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have zero doubt it is connected to COVID Hysteria.


13 posted on 10/28/2021 2:50:02 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Buttplug sez, “We cannot and should not accept these fatalities as simply a part of everyday life in America... No one will accomplish this alone. It will take all levels of government, industries, advocates, engineers and communities across the country working together toward the day when family members no longer have to say good-bye to loved ones because of a traffic crash.”

In other words, this is how a queer fag says nothing.


14 posted on 10/28/2021 2:50:54 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Make flying into a menacing world of masks, fights on planes, aircrews with bad attitudes, etc. Packed planes so they can cut daily flights. Hard pressed cops afraid to stop a car lest a black be driving to the roads are left unpatrolled.
And naturally, people opt to drive which exposes them to way more risk.

More government murder.


15 posted on 10/28/2021 2:52:13 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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Wait. Didn’t the CDC say your chances of dying from anything after you take the jab goes down to 0%?


16 posted on 10/28/2021 2:52:36 PM PDT by stevio
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No, they just want to eliminate reliable gasoline autos.

“EVs” and variants are welcome.

Remember the other year when “self-driving” was all the rage - and then, so was how many accidents were happening? What happened to that? Did people already abandon that stupid idea or was it just overshadowed by COVID Hysteria?


17 posted on 10/28/2021 2:52:50 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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Over crowding. Our little town is sooo crowded now. Cars everywhere...packed in town. Where are the people coming from?


18 posted on 10/28/2021 2:53:22 PM PDT by Karoo
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To: jimwatx

“Sounds like a ploy they intend to use to try and limit our driving, for climate change ya know. I bet they will make air travel much more expensive too, so the plebes will no longer be able to afford it. Certain things will only be available to the ‘important’ people.”

I agree with you. An 18% spike in road deaths makes no sense. They’ve had to cook the books on this in order to try and justify another crazy lefty policy to control another freedom.


19 posted on 10/28/2021 2:55:08 PM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have been noticing a lot more accidents and people doing stupid things on the road lately.


20 posted on 10/28/2021 2:55:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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