"Daniel J. Stern" > wrote in message
n.umich.edu...
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Garth Almgren wrote:
>
>> > I have looked online and sickened to see 40,000 plus people die every
>> > year. thats over 400,000 people in 10 years!
>>
>> That's actually not much, given how much we Americans drive. The NHTSA's
>> FARS front page places the fatality rate at 1.48 fatalities per
>> 100,000,000 vehicle miles traveled (2003), and that's the lowest it has
>> been roughly since the advent of the automobile.
>
> ...nevertheless, despite all the baseless "We're number one!"
> chestpounding, the US is only 10th-best and 16th-best in the world in
> deaths per vehicle-distance travelled and per vehicle registered,
> respectively (www.scienceservingsociety.com).
>
It's not like we are going to run out of people soon, though.

heh heh

Bernard