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To: Cogito who wrote (111605)	5/21/2009 5:00:10 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541375

If larger cars were safer, one would think that we would be at the very low end of the scale in terms of traffic deaths, given the much larger average size of cars here. Only if it was an overwhelming factor rather than just a moderate to important one. If it accounted for say 20% of the difference in fatalities between countries that would be a lot of lives, but you still wouldn't automatically get the country with the largest cars (assuming that is the US) at the bottom of the list. Also we are near the bottom of the scale. The countries lower than us are Canada (I think they have similar sized cars), the Scandinavian countries (who tend to have a lot of concern about safety), and the UK and Australia (I have no idea why they would be lower, but I don't think Australia tends toward small cars) There are noticeably more countries with worse stats than the US on this, and the differences are larger in the direction of worse. The best country is about 20% better than the US while the worst European country (not counting those that don't provide the stat at least some of which are likely worse) is about five times as high.