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Our view: Huge drop in traffic fatalities shows laws work

PostBulletin, January 9, 2012

During the past three or four years, we've made a habit of checking Minnesota's "Toward Zero Deaths" website on a fairly regular basis. Our main item of interest is the graph in the upper right that shows the up-to-date number of fatalities that have occurred in Minnesota during the current year, and compares that figure to the number of fatalities that had occurred by that date the previous year.