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A new federal report questions whether state car-safety inspection programs really help decrease accidents. Utah is one of just 16 states that still require the inspections, although Utah mandates them less often during a car’s life than others. The U.S. Government Accountability Office, a research arm of Congress, said this week that while states with inspections find and correct all sorts of safety problems, their accident rates are essentially the same as in states without them. That doesn’t ...