In metric deaths per kilometer Britain is about 15% higher than Sweden. Something that has to be considered is only weirdos live to drive, most people drive to

In metric deaths per kilometer Britain is about 15% higher than Sweden. Something that has to be considered is only weirdos live to drive, most people drive to live. This will be contentious much like work to live vs live to work. None the less, its quite mathematically possible to have a situation where fewer societal lifetimes are lost overall, yet more lives end in a car crash. Obviously re-implementing feudalism and never allowing serfs permission to leave their lords land would have very low car death rates, but the total amount of wasted lives would be enormously higher. Its quite possible that in terms of "lifetimes lost commuting per million people" that the USA is lower than Europe, what with our lack of public transit and seemingly everyone owning a car. For political reasons this statistic cannot be compiled because the result may not match predetermined journalistic goals.