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The pandemic brought faster vehicle speeds and more crashes; is automated enforcement one answer?
On this week’s Talking Michigan Transportation podcast, conversations with two people about the ongoing surge in highway speeds that began with the pandemic in early 2020 and the resulting rise in crash deaths.
First, author and columnist Helaine Olen talks about observations in her Washington Post column this week about the spike in reckless driving and traffic fatalities. Also discussed is the decline in seat belt use during the pandemic.
Olen writes that in the United States, “we’ve long failed to take road safety as seriously as we should. The results are predictably tragic: The United…
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