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Despite a major­i­ty of U.S. res­i­dents spend­ing the last year in their homes amid the pan­dem­ic, the num­ber of peo­ple who lost their lives on the road increased from 2019 to 2020.
There were over 42,000 motor vehi­cle deaths in 2020, accord­ing to the Nation­al Safe­ty Coun­cil, a non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tion that released a report on last year’s data Thurs­day. The exact total, 42,060, is the most peo­ple to have died in traf­fic acci­dents since 2007, rep­re­sent­ing an 8% increase from …