CJ is WRONG (again) about highway fatality rate being lower than that of cities.
The highway fatality rate is much lower than that of driving on city streets. IIRC, most fatal accidents occur within 10 miles of where the victim lives.
While most accidents do happen within 10 miles of home (this is a chestnut you obviously just pulled off the head and foolishly applied to fatalities - most accidents don't result in fatalities), highway driving IS more likely to produce fatalities.
"..states with a largely rural character and a high percentage of two lane roads will have greater fatalities ..."
books.google.com
BTW, WY has by far the highest traffic fatality rate per 100,000 population - rural, two lane highways, long distances to go anywhere. MS, SC, MT, NM, AR, SD follow. Lowest traffic fatality rates MA, RI, NY, NJ, CT - small urbanized states.
Also see this with 1996 data:
publicpurpose.com
Rural fatalities are the green bars and you can see they're higher than the yellow bars (urban fatalities).
Once more, we see CJ pulling foolish ideas out of his head and foolishly passing them off as facts. |
