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Loop 1604/I-10 interchange in September 2025.

‘Texans think of other people’: What to know as Texas approaches 25 years of daily traffic fatalities

By Hannah Norton

In the past 25 years, over 91,000 people have died on Texas roads. That is enough people to fill Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.

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