Nightly News   |  April 01, 2011

Traffic fatalities down 25 percent since 2005

Thanks to safer cars, better highways and a crackdown on drunk-driving traffic deaths have dropped to their lowest level since 1949. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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>>> there's news tonight that deaths on the road in this country are at their lowest level since 1949 . in 2010 , traffic fatalities dropped 3%. an impressive 25% over the past five-year period. the experts say it's thanks to fundamentally safer cars, highway engineering that's better and the drunk driving crackdown across the united states .