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America’s roads are getting deadlier

1 big thing

Axios

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4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Motor vehicle crash fatalities spiked in the first six months of this year. In fact it’s the biggest half-year rise on record. That’s according to new data from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and it's something Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is calling “a crisis.” Plus, inside New Jersey’s nail-biter election. And, Democrats' plan for drug prices. Guests: Nancy Solomon, Managing Editor for New Jersey Public Radio and WNYC; and Axios' Bryan Walsh and Caitlin Owens. Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Julia Redpath, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Alex Sugiura, Sabeena Singhani, Lydia McMullen-Laird and David Toledo. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh, is that a pumpkin spice latte?

0:03.2

No, it's the pumpkin spice latte.

0:05.9

Starbucks?

0:06.9

Obviously.

0:07.9

You know, I once got so obsessed with pumpkin spice, I only wore orange for a month.

0:11.4

Ugh, that's nothing.

0:12.6

I once got so obsessed I got a pumpkin shaming into my hair.

0:15.0

Oh yeah?

0:16.0

Well last year I cured outside Starbucks for a week, and my tent was a shape of a pumpkin.

0:19.8

Well, I'm changing my name to pumpkin spicy.

0:24.9

The Starbucks original is back.

0:26.7

Go all out pumpkin spice, subject to availability while stocks last.

0:57.7

Fatalities from motor vehicle crashes spiked in the first six months of this year.

1:03.6

In fact, it's the biggest half-year rise on record.

1:07.0

That's according to new data from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration.

1:11.2

Something transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg is calling a crisis.

1:15.4

Exuse Future correspondent Brian Walsh has been looking at why this is happening.

1:19.6

Hi, Brian.

1:20.6

Hi.

1:21.6

What are we seeing here?

1:22.6

And why are car crash deaths going up so much?

1:25.2

Well, we're clearly seeing an increase in the sheer number of people dying in the number

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