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Unlicensed drivers are now responsible for one-quarter of road fatalities — and are linked to fatal crashes much more often now than pre-pandemic, a new Streetsblog analysis shows.

It's already an ugly year for road deaths. Plus other news.

The death toll of city cyclists is now 18 — eight more than all of last year — as another rider was doored into traffic, where she was struck and killed by a massive truck in Sunset Park on Monday morning.

Pay no attention to those statistics on that seemingly official NYPD website — traffic fatalities are not up 26.2 percent so far this year. They're "only" up 22.4 percent.

What is driving the increase in deaths? Drivers, of course.

In the first 28 days of the year, 191 cyclists were reported injured, up from 158, or 20 percent, from the same period last year.

An analysis of news headlines in Canada identified rhetorical patterns that deflect culpability from drivers.

Walking in Orlando is deadlier than in any other major city in the nation. But the city's new transportation director is a reformer.

In the four months after DOT and the NYPD launched the "dusk and darkness" traffic enforcement and education campaign, traffic fatalities dropped 26 percent compared to the previous year, the agencies announced this morning.

Summer is barely over but this much is already clear: Traffic safety on American streets is taking a big step backward in 2016.