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Byline: Kevin A. Wilson
''Think about those deaths on the roads for a moment," says Phil Berardelli, author of Safe Young Drivers (and an article on page 21 of this magazine). "A highway fatality is as violent, bloody and gruesome as anything in warfare. It causes family members to grieve just as deeply as those of combat casualties; the lives cut short are just as tragically young, or younger."
Berardelli uses the statistical comparison when called upon to speak in public on the subject. It's not an exact comparison-there are far more teen drivers than there are soldiers deployed in Iraq. But the dismal fact is America watches many more young people die ...