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In battle against "the highway disease," traffic safety agency attacked as asleep at the wheel


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Former President Lyndon Johnson was probably not the first, nor certainly the last, to note that more Americans have died on the nation s roads than in all of its wars combined. He called it the highway disease in a speech in 1966, when he signed legislation that aimed to curb the slaughter.
At the time, more than 50,000 Americans were dying annually in traffic crashes. A new highway safety bureau, later named the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, was created to set vehicle safety standards, oversee recalls of defective cars and trucks, conduct safety research and consumer education, and distribute traffic safety grants to states all helping to reduce the body count.  ....

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