Sweden May Hold the Secret to Reducing Traffic Deaths

Country focuses more on reducing fatalities than on reducing accidents

Traffic fatalities remain stubbornly high in the U.S., fueled by distracted and drunken driving, more miles being driven and a spike in pedestrian deaths.

How can the U.S. get those numbers down? The answers may be found in Sweden.

In that country’s two biggest cities—Stockholm and Gothenburg—fatalities have remained essentially flat over...