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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
CST Editorial Board

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Bring reckless driving to a screeching halt - The Untold Story

Traffic makes it ways into the city on the I-290 into downtown, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. There were an estimated 280 traffic fatalities in Illinois during the first three months of 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

We urged motorists to pump the brakes on reckless driving in May when the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s preliminary data revealed traffic fatalities nationwide in 2021 were the highest they’d ever been in more than 15 years.

The latest NHTSA figures are just as crushing and an indicator that the push to keep drivers steering toward safety must continue at full speed.

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