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If you were to draw a graph of pedestrian deaths in America, you'd see a line that began

to dip slowly in the late 1970s.

That line would trend downward at a steady pace until roughly 10 years ago, and then it would

go the other way, telling a story about pedestrians and how they died.

Those fatalities fell for about 40 years and rose for the last 10.

That's Jesse Singer, a journalist, and the author of the book, there are no accidents.

And what happened in that last decade?

What happened in the last decade is a few things.

In general, pedestrians die because they're exposed to dangerous conditions, namely two

dangerous conditions, wide fast streets with a lot of traffic that are unsafe for walking,

but where people need to walk nonetheless, and the growing size of vehicles.

Where people are driving SUVs and pickup trucks, fewer are driving sedans, and those vehicles

are growing every year in weight and footprint.

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