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CELTICS WIRE — The first auto traffic fatality in the U.S. was recorded way back in 1899. Since then, about four million Americans have died in crashes on our roads. Four million! That’s roughly three times the number of Americans killed in all the nation’s wars since the Revolution.
We made safety improvements along the way, like seatbelts and air bags, but fatal accidents still happen every day on our roads. And every day, millions of Americans still get behind the wheel.
As the great mid-20th century architecture critic Lewis Mumford once observed, “The current American way of life is founded not just on motor transportation but on the religion of the motorcar, and the sacrifices that people are prepared to make for this religion stand outside the realm of rational criticism.”
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