From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Feb 16 2003 - 09:44:24 MST
--- BillK <bill@wkidston.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Mon Feb 10, 2003 10:22 am Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > Actually, since the US road death toll has been DROPPING as a
> > percentage for a number of years,
>
> The figures we have been discussing are the total numbers of traffic
> deaths, which have been generally reducing in the OECD countries over
> the last ten years. But *not* in the USA.
he goes on to quote figures exclusively for the 1990's. The road deaths
in the 1970's were over 60,000 at one point, and that was with far
fewer cars on the road. The anti-drunk driving campaign, which was
predominantly in the 1980s, was a major contributor to the drop to the
presently plateaued levels. The rest of the industrialized world did
not get on the anti drunk driver bandwagon until the 1990's, which is
one reason why you see the big drops for them in the 90's.
One thing that your statistics fail to reflect is road deaths per
passenger-mile, which is the ONLY true way to look at road fatalities
statistics in terms of improving or worsening safety.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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