It’s one of those good news/bad news stories and something of a mystery. As the national economy strengthens, highway deaths nationwide have continued to rise over the past few years. According to the National Safety Council, 40,200 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2017, which amounts to a 6 percent increase over 2016. It’s the highest increase on record since 2007. Ironically, today’s cars are inarguably engineered to be the safest since Henry Ford