The highway carnage has dropped since the early 90's but was still
43,200 for 2005. The rougly 3,000 people killed on 9/11 or the total of
about the same number of US troops killed in Iraq/Afganistan in the past
3 years is about 3-1/2 weeks of highway deaths.
Chuck Norcutt
Rob Harrison wrote:
> If we (us Americans, that is) were REALLY concerned with protecting the
> greatest number of our citizens, instead of fighting this 1984-like 'war on
> terrorism' we'd be dumping those billions of dollars into improving
> pedestrian, bicycle, road, motorcycle and automobile safety (different
> issues--now we emphasize auto safety to the virtual exclusion of everything
> else). Say, by creating more walkable communities....
>
> Check out this 'real time' counter of the economic effects of car crashes:
> <http://sightline.org/research/sprawl/res_pubs/crashes-by-the-numbers>
>
> Rob in Seattle
>
>
> On 8/22/06 8:20 AM, "James McBride" <jnmcbr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>>To put this risk in perspective, in the US, the odds of being killed in a
>>automobile crash are about 1 chance in 4000 per year. Those odds are very
>>bad but we accept the risk because we are accustomed to it. Perhaps we have
>>done a subconscious cost/benefit analysis. The perception of risk is a
>>fascinating subject and, when reduced to numbers, makes one wonder about
>>some of the things we worry about. /jmac
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