Spiked dramatically. traffic deaths rose by more than 10% in a single year. year. now in any year that would be odd and distressing b. but coming as it did in twentyas twenty , it was flat out f bizarre because as you ll rememberbiza in twenty twenty te was a pandemic. it had just started millions of people stayed home that year. t did ndido not drive to work. many didn t drive at all in twenty twenty roads were less crowded than they hadan ben in decades in this country. so of course you would expectew far fewer traffic deathser, lesr traffic, fewer people dyingff in traffic and yet there were more traffic deaths. i think that s where it gets weirder. if you look deeper into the numbers you sawaw that notil only were more americans dying in cars in the year 2020 a staggering number of those who died were black traffic deaths among african-americansin rose by nearly 25% in a single year. that s unprecedented. so in a normal presidential administration, that question why is this happeni