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"Fewer Traffic Deaths but are Deadlier"
Can anybody explain this title to me?

PondartIncbendog 8 May 21
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I understand what the writer probably meant, but it sounds like these lighter traffic deaths are MORE dead somehow than they would otherwise have been. You know, REALLY dead, rather than just barely so. 😉

Zster Level 8 May 22, 2020
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Apparently because there are fewer people on the road, there are fewer traffic deaths, but the percentage of deadly accidents is up, because people are being more careless I guess. I read an article about it, but it didn't have this headline, which is terrible.

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Ugh! Headlines - even for News shows - are getting butchered.

There used to be an Editor (or two) that checked that everything was correct - I'm betting there isn't now.

Just like at newspapers - more and more staff are let go and they rely on spell check - which has no idea what order words need to go in - in order to make actual sense.

Anyway, how is one traffic death any more deadlier than another? smh
Maybe they meant accidents?

@bingst Jerry Reed; "When ya dead ya dead"...........

I spent hours trying to understand this one. I took a nap and came back,,,and it was still there,,,,,,,"deaths from deadly accidents are deadly".........I will go to my grave with those thoughts..........

@bingst Thats what the report said, its just sloppy headline writing.

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