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Why Pedestrian Deaths Are At A 30-Year High
By: Sea Stachura | NPR
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“It’s great advice to tell people to use a crosswalk, but that’s not very useful if the crosswalk doesn’t exist,” says Tom Ellington of the Pedestrian Safety Review Board in Macon, Ga.