Road Fatalities In Gregg Easterbrook's Essay 'Road Kill'

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Road Fatalities
Gregg Easterbrook, a fellow of the Brooking Institution, argues in his essay, “Road Kill,” that citizens in the US and all over the world are so uninformed about the number of traffic accident deaths because the media does not display them (A-3). Easterbrook writes on how horsepower and cell phones (which cause distracted driving) are two of the most common causes of the high number of traffic accidents. He explains how Americans are uninformed about the traffic accidents because people think they are accidents and you can’t stop accidents. Easterbrook thinks otherwise. In Easterbrook’s first paragraph, he states that the loss of 3,000 people during 9/11 has justified two wars, but the loss of 245,000 people from traffic