You can do a low-quality check easily. Read some medium that you suspect will be different from NYT/G for a week and count how many traffic accidents were repor

You can do a low-quality check easily. Read some medium that you suspect will be different from NYT/G for a week and count how many traffic accidents were reported in a particular locale, and how many reports there were for each. Then call the police and ask how many there actually were in that week. I can guess what you'll find: What's chosen for reporting is news or otherwise noteworthy events. Traffic accidents may be a cause of death, but that doesn't make them either news or noteworthy. Traffic jams and their causes are an everyday occurence, even if the cause involves someone being driven off in an ambulance.