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The National Safety Council said that an estimated 42,060 people died in car crashes last year, an increase of 8%. "It is tragic that in the U.S. we took cars off the roads and didn't reap any safety benefits," said Lorraine M. Martin, the president and CEO of the National Safety Council. (Associated Press)

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This image made with a fisheye lens, shows a portion of the 22,000 pills with faces carved into them on display in a memorial by the National Safety Council to the victims of the opioid epidemic at the University of Pittsburgh, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018, in Pittsburgh. The exhibit featuring the wall with the carved medicine pills, each representing the face of someone who fatally overdosed, was launched in Chicago in November, 2017. Pittsburgh is the first stop on a nationwide tour. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) (Associated Press)