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The proposal announced Monday comes as the number of annual pedestrian deaths is up more than 75% since reaching its lowest point in 2009.

Huh i wonder if that have something to do with:

How popular are they? Since 2010, their numbers have jumped nearly tenfold globally. Across the world, there are now an estimated 330 million SUV-type vehicles on the roads today, out of perhaps one-and-a-half-billion passenger cars in total โ€“ up from about 35 million in 2010.