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"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 |
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