Pedestrian fatalities reach 17-year-high. This trend could be why

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3. Here in rural Vermont...

... where weather conditions in winter pretty much demand 4-wheel drive, or at least all-wheel drive, there is always a frothing-at-the-mouth competition among the Mr.-Macho-Jockstrap-I-gots-da-IQ-uvva-turnip crowd, for who has the most ridiculously oversized pickup graced with trailer-hitch gonads the size of cantaloups. The guys who pilot an $80-grand duallie usually win that pissin' contest. Until he runs up against the guy with a 10-WHEEL DOUBLE DUALLIE 3500 RAM! There actually is such a beast available. A fellow in Mendon has one.

Art is how I make my living, but I love to build stuff around our nearly 200-year-old house, so I drive a rusty 15-year-old 4-WD Dodge Dakota pickup with over quarter of a million miles on her. It gets me where I gotta go, and carries what I need to carry. My wife drives the '22 Honda CRV.