“We face a crisis here in America,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told Yahoo News last month, pointing out that the number of people who died on the roads each year (42,795 in 2022) is comparable to the number killed by guns (48,830 in 2021).
Hrm… here’s the list I can come up with off the top of my head:
Shit, it’s a very long list of failures in how the US builds roads. It’s a litany of “cars should go vroom vroom at all costs to everyone around me and bigger is better for my angry ass” that just keeps killing us.