The event's organizers say funds raised will go to raising awareness and researching a cure for this rare disease in honor of Thea Flener of Central City.
The event's organizers say funds raised will go to raising awareness and researching a cure for this rare disease in honor of Thea Flener of Central City.
benefit ride in her honor. i m just really sad that that we have all of this because of a death. these are not accidents. we have a preventable public health crisis. reporter: amy cohen lost her 12-year-old son to a car crash. now as the co-founder of families were safe streets, she says the goal is not just fewer deaths, but zero deaths on our roads. safety advocates put the onus on auto makers and governments, local, state and federal to attack the issue from all angles. pete buttigieg says redesigning roads to be safer is a top priority for the biden administration using funds from the bipartisan infrastructure law. it is as if we are living through a war. we cannot and must not accept that these fatalities are somehow an inevitable part of life in america. the latest federal data says a third of motor vehicle deaths
in illinois, eight dead. including all six members of the debose family. the losses tell the story of what safety advocates call a crisis on our roads. the overall numbers are still moving in the wrong direction. reporter: new data from the national highway traffic safety administration shows 9560 people were killed on u.s. roads in the first three months of this year. that is a 7% jump over the same period last year and the highest for a first quarter in 20 years. we hope these trends were limited to 2020, but sadly they aren t. risky behaviors skyrocketed and traffic fatalities spiked. reporter: virginia saw one of the biggest increases nationwide with traffic deaths spiking more than 70% in the first quarter. last week, near richmond, triathlete jonah holland say she was hit and killed by a suspected drunk driver while cycling. thursday, fellow cyclists held a benefit ride in her honor.
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