Trend: How to Lower Traffic Fatalities With Love From Sweden.

A record low number of Swedes died in traffic accidents in 2014. Sweden’s traffic fatalities run at 3 per 100,000. In the US, it is 11 per 100,000.  Sweden’s fatality rate is nearly 1/4 of the U.S.’s.

What did the Swedes do right that has so many Americans studying Swedish transportation?

• Engineering: roads that are designed for safety, not speed.
• Lower speed limits in crowded areas
• Safer pedestrian crossings with bridges and flashing lights 

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