Deaths in auto accidents and car wrecks in the United States last year were at the lowest level since 1949, despite the Americans driving some 21 million miles more in 2010 than sixty-one years earlier.
Gibson Vance, the President of the American Association for Justice, discusses the role of accountability and liability for auto makers in the civil justice system that has led directly to safer cars and fewer traffic deaths in an essay, "How Our Cars Got Safer," in the Washington Post.