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AAA Reports Nearly 42 Million Americans Will Kick Off Summer with a Memorial Day Getaway

May 24, 2018 By CollisionWeek Editor

While gas prices are higher, travel by car projected up 4.7 percent.

Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, and Americans will kick off the season by traveling in near-record numbers. According to AAA, more than 41.5 million Americans will travel this Memorial Day weekend, nearly 5 percent more than last year and the most in more than a dozen years. With nearly 2 million additional people taking to planes, trains, automobiles and other modes of transportation, INRIX, a global transportation analytics company, expects travel delays on major roads could be up to three times longer than normal, with

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