Traffic fatalities are tragic, but we don't prevent them at all costs.

交通死亡事故是悲剧，但我们不能不惜一切代价地阻止它们。

They've reduced traffic fatalities by as much as 50 percent.

这做法降低了高达 50% 的交通事故死亡率。

Is there a way to ensure there will never be another traffic fatality?

有没有办法保证永远不会有另一个交通事故？

Sweden has one of the world's lowest rates of traffic fatalities — only 2.8 deaths for every 100,000 people.

瑞典是世界上交通死亡事故最少的国家之一——在这儿，每 10 万人只有 2.8 人死于交通事故。

We would be pretty close to zero traffic fatalities.

我们将非常接近零交通死亡人数。

Cities across the country are trying to reduce traffic fatalities with safety campaigns.

全国各地的城市都在努力通过安全运动来减少交通事故死亡人数。

What isn't so obvious is the kind of compromise that needs to be made to avoid high traffic fatality rates without hitting the brakes on a vast industry.

不那么明显的是需要做出什么样的妥协来避免高交通死亡率，同时又不给一个庞大的行业踩刹车。

One of the main sources of traffic fatalities at the time was single vehicles running off the road and colliding with a fixed object like a tree or light post.

当时交通死亡的主要来源之一是单车冲出道路并与树木或灯柱等固定物体相撞。

According to the National Institutes of Health, in the mid-70s, alcohol was a factor in more than 60 percent of traffic fatalities, particularly for those between the ages of 16 and 20.

根据美国国立卫生研究院的数据， 在 70 年代中期，酒精是造成 60% 以上交通死亡的一个因素， 尤其是对于 16 至 20 岁的人群。