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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: fresc who wrote (27462)1/21/2005 8:34:08 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Or cars. We still run over 50,000 deaths in auto accidents a year.

Lots of statistics on rates and causes of death in here:
benbest.com

MORE THAN YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW! :-)

The odds of being killed during a scheduled airline flight are about one per million -- nearly four times greater than the odds of being killed in an automobile ride. But most car trips are for far fewer miles. Per passenger mile an automobile ride is 10 times more likely to result in fatality than an airplane journey. (Airplane fatalities occur most frequently during takeoff & landing -- especially takeoff.) Buses are safer -- per passenger mile an automobile is 25 times more likely to lead to death than a bus. Conversely, motorcycles are 35 times per passenger mile more likely to cause death than automobiles. Boat travel is hard to compare per passenger mile, but the risk of death during a boat trip is far more dangerous than one in a car. Most boating deaths are due to drowning -- with 80% of those dying not wearing life jackets.
Hmmmmmm......


TEN COUNTRIES WITH THE LOWEST ANNUAL MOTOR VEHICLE DEATH RATES, MID-1990s

COUNTRY
	
DEATHS PER 100,000
(1) Sweden 	5.7
(2) Bahamas 	6.1
(3) United Kingdom 	6.2
(4) Norway 	6.6
(5) Netherlands 	7.7
(6) Finland 	7.9
(7) Trinidad & Tobago 	10.3
(8) Canada 	10.4
(9) Israel 	10.6
(10) Australia 	10.6

For reasons I don't know, Canada appears to a significantly lower auto accident death rate than the US.
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