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Not 100 per day?
by alexilliamson 6y ago
Not 100 per day?
- paulgb 6y ago100 per day in the US alone in 2018. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_...
- alexilliamson 6y agoThe parent was talking about Germany. In the US we're currently at 2-3k coronavirus deaths so still much larger than auto deaths.
- paulgb 6y agoOk, that's fair. I interpreted "we" from moduspol as "we as a society" but I agree that the German numbers are more relevant here. (Incidentally, using traffic death numbers as a baseline for a rate of fatalities we should accept is bad anyway because those numbers are also higher than we should tolerate, IMO.)
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- moduspol 6y agoActually, a little more. https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/ https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/ 38,000 a year ~= 104 / day
- oezi 6y agoNo, Germany had 3100 deaths due to traffic in the whole year 2019. Less than 10 per day.
- mytailorisrich 6y agoMore than 300 people die every day from preventable causes in Germany, excluding Covid-19. (based on 120,000 preventable deaths in 2016: https://www.oecd.org/germany/health-at-a-glance-germany-EN.pdf https://www.oecd.org/germany/health-at-a-glance-germany-EN.p... )