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Murder at the Traffic Circle

I wasn’t quite sure what could top, in terms of senseless road depravity, the story, from Los Angeles, of the driver who attacked a pair of cyclists with his car (it was his second reported altercation).

But then I read about the case of the Seattle man who was killed while tending to the flowers in the traffic circle outside his house, apparently by some passing drivers who took issue with the safety cones he had temporarily put up while watering. The man, a Vietnam vet, had himself lobbied for the circle after a car had struck his house.

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How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

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