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Richard Blumenthal: “I think we can agree that whatever the cause or however many crashes and fatalities and injuries are caused by driver…”

On the recordJuly 28, 2014
I think we can agree that whatever the cause or however many crashes and fatalities and injuries are caused by driver fatigue, whether it is 10 percent or 90 percent, every one of those crashes, every one of those deaths and injuries is too many.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizes the critical issue of crashes caused by driver fatigue.

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