Fewer distractions, safer roads
Illinois is fortunate to have experienced a steady decrease in the number of highway traffic fatalities.
Starting in 2009, the death toll dipped below 1,000 for the first time since 1921 (2009, 911 deaths; 2010, 927 deaths; and 2011, 918 deaths), according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.
In the decade of the 2000s, the highest death toll was 1,454 in 2003, so the recent reduction is substantial.
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