Thomas Pumpelly (Email) 10.1Highway Deaths and Injuries:
During 2007, Forty One Thousand, and Fifty Nine (41,059), people were killed in the United States in traffic related accidents. Thousands more were critically, and permanently, injured. Vehicle design, roadways and driver impairment are causal factors. Highway deaths have routinely average in the Forty Thousand (40,000), range during the past decade, even though a multitude of “new” safety features have been touted by the automobile manufacturers.