The key player for the Los Angeles Rams was seriously injured in an accident earlier today; he is in critical condition and needs your prayers.
We can add 8,935 more lives to the somber total of 900,000 COVID deaths that the United States has recently experienced.
That represents the “extra” number of people who died in vehicle accidents in 2020 and 2021, when the number of traffic fatalities increased due to the pandemic. It’s not that faster driving is possible on busier roads. This is just one more instance of the same antisocial behavior that has caused the murder rate to rise.
One of the pandemic’s “silver linings,” according to reporters and researchers in early 2020, would be fewer crashes, which would give us more time for our hobbies.
For a while, that was indeed the case: from 9,172 traffic deaths in the previous spring to 9,120 in the spring of 2020, there was a 0.6% overall decline in traffic deaths.
Fewer people were driving, which resulted in a nearly 25% decrease in the number of fatalities on American roads.
