Even with fewer cars on the road in 2020, traffic fatalities were up. Blame receding law enforcement. Image from article: Heavy traffic in New York, June 4 PHOTO: NIYI FOTE/ZUMA PRESS By Warren Kozak , The Wall Street Journal , July 25, 2021 4:31 pm ET New York You’ve probably never heard of Henry Hale Bliss, but he holds a dubious distinction in American history. On the evening of Sept. 13, 1899, Bliss, a 69-year-old real-estate developer, stepped off the Eighth Avenue trolley at 74th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan. As he reached back to assist a female rider off the trolley, he was hit by an electric taxi driven by Arthur Smith. Bliss was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where he died the next morning, thus becoming the first recorded automobile fatality in the U.S. Bliss image from Wikipedia The accident made headlines in New York papers. Today, unless the victim is a celebrity, traffic deaths are rarely considered newsworthy. That might be because there have been rough
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