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Re:Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers by mikeash on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @07:51PM (#19620232)
Traffic fatalities in the US have been trending up since 2014.

Edit: corrected to 2014, not 2015.

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Re:Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers by mturmon on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:44PM (#19620588)
This is my understanding as well. Supporting data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

Note that fatalities per 100M population has not just been trending up, but it is doing so after trending down for many previous years.

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