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Pedestrians were victims of about 15% of traffic fatalities in 2017, with the roughly 6,000 pedestrian deaths representing a level not seen in 25 years, according to a report released last month by the Governors Highway Safety Association. More broadly, regulators are reckoning with a sudden rise in traffic deaths that follows a decadelong improvement in highway safety. The association estimates pedestrian fatalities rose 27% from 2007 to 2016, a period during which the broader traffic-fatality number was mostly falling. Overall fatalities, however, have been rising as well in recent years as drivers deal with increasing distractions in the cabin of their cars and Americans put more miles on their vehicles amid a strong economy and low gasoline prices. In traffic accidents in which fatally injured drivers were tested for drugs, the detection rate was 43% in 2015, compared with 28% in 2005,

— pedestrian deaths and driving deaths related to substance abuse  

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