Original sentence: An analysis by John Adams can be found here.In the United States, fatalities have increased slightly from 40,716 in 1994 to 42,643 in 2003.Others claim that road safety improvements, not Smeed's law, are the dominant cause of lives saved.Several explanations for this disappointing outcome have been proposed:.Whatever the reason, it has been noted that road fatality trends closely follow the so-called "Smeed's law" (after RJ Smeed, its author), an empirical rule relating injury rates to the two-thirds power of car ownership levels
Edited sentence: An analysis by prof.In the United States, fatalities have increased slighty from 40,716 in 1994 to 42,643 in 2003.John Adams can be found here.Several explanations have been proposed:.Some expected greater improvements.The road safety establishment is dismissive of this, preferring to claim the credit for lives saved.Whatever the reason, it has been noted that road fatality trends closely follow the so-called "Smeed's law" (after RJ Smeed its author), an empirical rule relating injury rates to the two-thirds power of car ownership levels