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Peter DeFazio: “I still find it hard to believe if, you know, one person or one company had one incident where they were legally…”

On the recordSeptember 12, 2012
I still find it hard to believe if, you know, one person or one company had one incident where they were legally, properly, you know, stopped, and someone crashed into them, by their entire negligence, that that is an indicator that somehow that person is going to be involved in a future crash.
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Peter DeFazio
Democratic · Oregon

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DeFazio questions the validity of crash data predicting future incidents.

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