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The Perfect Crime (Rebroadcast)

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How Much Have You Been Killed in Auto Accidents?

Charlie Zagir: In the late 1920s there were almost 16,000 pedestrians killed per year in auto crashes. He says that number is about a third of what we have now. The share of pedestrian deaths has fallen much more over the decades he says.

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