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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Truck crash fatalities jumped nearly ten percent between 2016 and 2017, and increased over 40 percent since 2009.”

On the recordJune 11, 2019
Truck crash fatalities jumped nearly ten percent between 2016 and 2017, and increased over 40 percent since 2009.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Norton highlights the alarming rise in truck crash fatalities.

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