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Deaths in Car Crashes Down Almost 25% in Tennessee

Posted: 03 May 2020 04:44 AM PDT

Every Tennessean noticed a decline in motor vehicle traffic in the the month of April 2020. The reduced number of vehicles on the roads showed up in the death rate on the state’s highways.

In 2019, 88 people died on Tennessee highways during the month of April. In April 2020, 67 people died.

To be sure, every death on our highways results in a horrible loss for someone – each person who dies is someone’s parent, child, spouse or sibling. But last month 21 fewer families received bad news as a result of a motor vehicle crash in Tennessee.