Motor vehicle crashes kill as many people as breast cancer and twice as many people as murder, and injure more than 2 million people every year. I treat many patients for auto related injuries.
After decreasing for several decades from 50,000 to the low 30,000's per year, the auto death rate has increased significantly by 14% over the last two years back up to 40,000. Most authorities agree this is due to distracted driving.
I have posted on this topic several times over the last couple years.
A Public-Health Crisis That We Can Fix
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Monday, March 13, 2017
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