[ExI] US traffic deaths dropped to new low

Damien Sullivan phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu
Thu Apr 14 21:54:39 UTC 2011


On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 10:56:43PM +0100, BillK wrote:

> So fewer traffic deaths has multiple reasons.  No magic bullet here.

I can't help noting that if all those cars were replaced by bus and rail
transit, those 32,000/year deaths would drop to somewhere between 300
and 3000, based on relative safety rates.

-xx- Damien X-) 



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