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Making automobiles safe wasn't the top priority of the United States auto market. The first priority for years was for making sure cars looked nice and moved fast. It was not until 1959 that Congress required U.S. vehicles to have seat belts, in response to staggering numbers of highway fatalities resulting from traffic accidents. It has shown in the numbers that safety technology in vehicles is more advanced. In 2009, there were, on United States of America streets, less fatalities recorded than there were in six decades. The Department of Transportation reported this. Article resource - Traffic deaths on U.S. highways hits lowest rate in 60 years .

Safety advancements and tougher laws make traffic deaths lessen

The Associated Press explains that less traffic fatalities are caused as a result of seat belts, airbags, body construction and stability control. It also makes clear that laws about drinking while driving and being distracted when driving help as well. By the numbers, traffic deaths decreased by 9.7 percent in 2009 to 33,808, the lowest number on record since 1950. By comparison, 37,423 deaths related to highway accidents occurred in 2008. The number went down from 2008 to 2009. It was 1.26 fatalities per million miles and then went to 1.13 deaths. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood proudly exclaimed the latest report "shows that America's roads are the safest they've ever been.".

Is it the economic recession?

Historical data suggests that highway fatalities have tended to decrease when The United States faces recession. For instance, within the late 1970s/early 1980s when Americans suffered via recession and oil shortages, the numbers were down. The same thing occurred within the early 1990s. In both cases, the cost of driving more than likely kept more people at home or pushed them toward public transportation. Automobile traffic deaths will clearly go down with fewer people driving. The Department of Transportation shows how this isn't the case. In 2009, there was a .2 percent increase in miles traveled by motorists. 

Distracted driving what law is preventing

It is always a bad idea to focus on cell phones or texting rather than the road. This is something legislation enforcement do not like. That is why more try to stop it. If more laws were developed like this in more states, the roads within the U.S. would be safer. This comes from an interview with LaHood from AP.

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Further reading

Star Tribune

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Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt

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It's getting ugly in California over Proposition 8.

Here is a death threat letter (NSFW), issued on October 20th, 2008 to two of ten households in a California neighborhood where "Vote Yes on Prop 8" signs were being displayed.  Their signs had been stolen by the time they found the letter.

The person who provided me a copy of this letter, who wishes to remain anonymous at this time for obvious reasons, is a head of one of two households to have received identically worded death threats, laced with profanity and insults.  The recipient stated that, due to certain phrases and words used in the letter, the writer of the threat likely knows something about the religious background of the two households.

This is the second time that  this family has had their signs stolen in only a few days.  A police investigation is underway.

Commentary by Bobby Schindler

June 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Recently, yet another situation similar to that of my sister Terri Schiavo has made headlines. In West Palm Beach, Florida, Raymond Weber is asking the court to dehydrate his disabled wife, Karen, to death.

If you have read any of the reports in mainstream media, it’s just another case of a husband looking out for the “best interest” of his spouse. And just as in Terri’s case, Raymond Weber is asking the government to deliberately kill his wife who is not dying and is guilty of nothing more than having difficulty swallowing and therefore needing help, in the form of a feeding tube, to eat.

Not surprisingly, in a story by the AP, was a quote from the husband’s attorney who so touchingly referred to his client’s brain-injured wife as a “vegetable,” thus offending the tens of thousands of people and their families who do live with a profound brain injury.

The reporter also wrote that the decision whether Karen should live or die will depend upon whether or not a committee finds her “competent” to go on living. Yes, that is correct, competent enough to live. I guess passing an IQ test will be next.

Factors such as what is being taught in our medical schools, the breakdown of our health care system, the powerful influence of assisted suicide organizations, and the propaganda of our mainstream media have taken their toll.

As a result, the physically and mentally “inferior” are being denied the most basic care—food and water—in our nation’s medical facilities every day. (Thank goodness we have laws making it a felony if we do the same to an animal, although I would expect there would be a greater outcry if it were the family pets at risk.)

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08061602.html

Commentary by Bobby Schindler

June 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Recently, yet another situation similar to that of my sister Terri Schiavo has made headlines. In West Palm Beach, Florida, Raymond Weber is asking the court to dehydrate his disabled wife, Karen, to death.

If you have read any of the reports in mainstream media, it’s just another case of a husband looking out for the “best interest” of his spouse. And just as in Terri’s case, Raymond Weber is asking the government to deliberately kill his wife who is not dying and is guilty of nothing more than having difficulty swallowing and therefore needing help, in the form of a feeding tube, to eat.

Not surprisingly, in a story by the AP, was a quote from the husband’s attorney who so touchingly referred to his client’s brain-injured wife as a “vegetable,” thus offending the tens of thousands of people and their families who do live with a profound brain injury.

The reporter also wrote that the decision whether Karen should live or die will depend upon whether or not a committee finds her “competent” to go on living. Yes, that is correct, competent enough to live. I guess passing an IQ test will be next.

Factors such as what is being taught in our medical schools, the breakdown of our health care system, the powerful influence of assisted suicide organizations, and the propaganda of our mainstream media have taken their toll.

As a result, the physically and mentally “inferior” are being denied the most basic care—food and water—in our nation’s medical facilities every day. (Thank goodness we have laws making it a felony if we do the same to an animal, although I would expect there would be a greater outcry if it were the family pets at risk.)

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jun/08061602.html