By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix
Federal highway safety data released Tuesday show the traffic death toll in California continues to trend upward even as the number of people who die on roads nationwide holds steady.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that 32,675 people — vehicle drivers, their passengers, pedestrians and cyclists — died in collisions in 2014. On the one hand, that’s terrible, the equivalent of erasing the entire population of Menlo Park in the course of a year.
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