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09-01-2008, 10:15 PM
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One interesting tidbit after digging through the data.
In the first year of recorded data (1925) we had almost 25 fatalities for every 10,000 horseless carriages on the road. Our present rate is just under or slightly over 1. We can consider 1500 annual deaths a tragedy (which it is) but if it hadn't been for all the improvements in the intervening 82 years and we still had the same rate then our annual total would be over 32,000. At the 1950 rate of 11.6 per 10,000 vehicles we'd be at 16,000 per annum. At the 1960 rate of 8.7 we'd have 12,853 At the 1970 rate of 8.0 we'd have 11,800 At the 1980 rate of 4.3 we'd have 6,351 Sobering thoughts. Russ
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