Understanding the Problem

Over 6 million crashes and incidents
Over 41,000 traffic fatalities

In the photo on the right, an emergency response unit is pulled up behind a disabled vehicle on the highway shoulder, the emergency response operator is talking to the driver, they are both outside the vehicle, a pickup truck with its hood up, looking at the engine. In the photo on the bottom, the same gruesome crash from slide one is used again. Firemen surround the wreckage, inspecting debris in the foreground of the picture, and one carries a hose from a fire-truck in the background of the picture.

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