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Highway Deaths Decline 1.7%, Dropping for Sixth Year, U.S. Says
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The number of people killed on U.S. highways fell in 2011 for the sixth straight year, the longest streak of declines in the nation’s history.
Crash fatalities dropped 1.7 percent to an estimated 32,310 from a year earlier, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said today in a report. The fatality rate, or the number of people killed for every 100 million vehicle miles traveled, slid to 1.09 from 1.11 in 2010.