Federated Insurance April Risk Management Corner

The Elephant in the Room 

What is large, scary, and has the ability to crush you? If you said elephant, you’re not wrong, but, for the sake of this article, a fellow distracted driver is the correct answer.

Painting a not-so-pretty picture

Let’s create a dot map. First, picture the lower 48 states. Now, cover everything east of the Mississippi River and the western half of Washington, Oregon, and California with 32,000 red dots. At first glance, the map almost looks solid red over these areas. So what? These dots illustrate the more than 32,000 traffic fatalities in 2016.¹ Those dots are people! (To see an actual version of this illustration, the Web address of the NHTSA report is listed at the end of this article.) 

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