By Robert Lewis and Lauren Hepler, CalMatters
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At a California State Senate committee hearing this year, the director of CalTrans, Tony Tavares, showed a simple chart that might have caused the assembled lawmakers some alarm.
It was a series of black bars representing the death toll on Californiaโs roads in each of the past 20 years.ย
Fatalities had been falling until 2010, whenโฆ






