Actually I think a 50% drop in accidents is pretty good, especially given how many new dangerous things we've invented since then. Actually there was an articl

Actually I think a 50% drop in accidents is pretty good, especially given how many new dangerous things we've invented since then. Actually there was an article the other day about accidental death rates: death due to drug overdose has overtaken death due to car accident, due to a dramatic drop in one and rise in the other. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Drugs/drug-deaths-exceed-traffic-deaths/story?id=14554903#.T-UXK5lYtO4 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Drugs/drug-deaths-exceed-traffi... The extent to which drug overdoses can be called "accidental" is, of course, debatable, but I guess they're classified as accidental at least in cases where it's not obviously suicide.