Do you liberals care that automobile deaths are increasing every year?

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Motor vehicle deaths are on the rise this year, in a trend that’s not likely to reverse anytime soon, safety advocates said.

A new report from the National Safety Council, a nonprofit group devoted to using research and data to prevent deaths, found that fatalities from traffic incidents were 9% higher through the first six months of 2016 than during the same time period last year.

Nearly 19,100 people have died on U.S. roads since January, and 2.2 million have been injured, the report said, as a stronger economy and lower unemployment rates combined with lower average gas prices to put more drivers on the road this year.

“Our complacency is killing us,” Deborah A.P. Hersman, president and CEO of the National Safety Council, said in the report. “One hundred deaths every day should outrage us. Americans should demand change to prioritize safety actions and protect ourselves from one of the leading causes of preventable death.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-traffic-deaths-rise-173838992.html?nhp=1

It doesn't outrage liberals because it doesn't fit their political narrative as no guns were involved.
 
Nice ad hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy. Traffic injuries and deaths are a fraction of what they were before safety standards for automobiles were legislated. Curse those damned liberals :rolleyes:
 
WE already require safety features on cars and require they be registered and that operators be licensed.
 
Honestly besides the usual suspects of drinking and speeding, I think smart phone use is a big contributor. I can't wait to see the vehicle crash stats/graph for early July (when Pokemon GO was released).
 
If you want to go all partisan on stuff like this - how come conservatives never talk about this, but are obsessed with "extremist Muslim terrorism?"
 
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