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Phil Weiser: “Car accidents were the number one cause of death for young…”

Featuring: Phil Weiser, Democratic | Attorney General of Colorado

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Colorado Democratic Gubernatorial Primary Debate

Published | Video Starts at 22:43

We had a roundtable. Cheryl Goodman was there. She's here today. She lost her son to fentanyl. So many kids are losing to gun violence and fentanyl. When I was growing up, Car accidents were the number one cause of death for young people. Not anymore. It's a distant third. Our kids deserve better. What Jason said at the roundtable, I wrote up a blog post about it. You can read. (22:43–22:48)

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Asserts that car accidents are now the third leading cause of death for young people.

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