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This is sad, but kind of strange with all the fear and media publicity of an airplane crash. For example, 1.2million people lost their life in road traffic in 2

by amix 13y ago

This is sad, but kind of strange with all the fear and media publicity of an airplane crash. For example, 1.2million people lost their life in road traffic in 2010 alone... We rarely read or fear about this fact.

fragsworth 13y ago
Yeah. Every day, more than ten times as many people die in traffic accidents than in this single plane crash.
caf 13y ago
I'm sure we would read about a single road accident claiming a few hundred lives as well.
- amix 13y ago
  Each day about ~100.000 people lose their life in road accidents...
  - caf 13y ago
    That's actually wrong by an order of magnitude, but that's not the point. The fact that individual road accidents claiming a few victims are so common is exactly why it's not news.
humannature 13y ago
it's because air travel is the safest mode of transportation, and plane crashes rarely happen