Traffic Deaths Rise For First Time In 5 Years, Experts Puzzled By Increase

Huff Post - Daniel Trotta/Reuters, 10/2/12

Oct 2 (Reuters) - U.S. traffic deaths rose 9 percent in the first half of 2012 compared with the same period last year, breaking a 5-year downward trend, according to preliminary data that experts cannot yet explain.

Road accidents killed 16,290 people from January through June, the most since 2009, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a preliminary report that does not examine causes.

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