This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

When somebody gets in a car rack, there's a group of people who rush to the scene

to examine exactly what happened.

Is there any accidents working right now, Joe?

They're called police officers.

Talk about reports and this and that.

But maybe we can go right out.

This is New York State Trooper Frank Bandiro. And riding shotgun with

Bandiro is Stan Alcorn from the investigative reporting podcast,

Reveal. I went for this ride along last spring not so much to see a wreck as to see the paperwork

Oh and this is something else I want to show you our accident report is right here

in the past 50 years the car crash death rate has

fallen by nearly 80 percent and one of the reasons for that drop has to do with

this accident report form. It's where Bandiro writes down the weather, draws a

diagram of the wreck, identifies its primary cause.

So you've got like a whole list of possible causes.

I don't know if you can read those little things,

but there's a million.

I mean, try to cover all the spaces.

Animal Action can be?

Exactly. Say a deer is crossing a roadway.

I try to tell my wife, the safest thing to do is to slow down as much as you can without being unsafe and drive straight through the animal.

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