Better News!

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been counting and projecting again, and the results are excellent. We the drivers of America are buckling up more and killing fewer of one another on the road. Yay! Mother R is so proud of us that she is not even going to crab about our making many of the alarming statistics in her book out of date.

I will only bore you with a few of the new facts (see Traffic Safety Facts for more), such as seat belt use increasing by a measly 1% to a grand total of 84%. That's nice, but you can do better, and that's exactly what I expect for the next report. Don't make me tell you again! But I will tell you that traffic deaths have declined by a whopping 7% in the first half of 2009 as compared to the same period in 2008. Good job, salubrious drivers!