Sweden was a left-side-driving country with left-side driving cars—and a high rate of head-on crashes and tricky border crossings with right-side-driving Norway. Still, Swedes voted overwhelmingly against switching sides for 40 years. "Nu räcker det!" the government said in 1963, instituting a plan to make the switch. Högertrafikomläggningen ("right-hand traffic diversion") arrived on September 3, 1967. Accident rates started falling the very next day.
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