Hmmmm, makes me want to buy a Hummer….
A Deadly Story We Keep Missing - washingtonpost.com
The non-story of 2006 was also the non-story of 2005. It is a non-story every year going back decades. Yet the number of people who die in car crashes in the United States is staggering, even if it is absent from the agenda of most public officials and largely ignored by the public.
When all is said and done and the ball begins to drop on New Year’s Eve, 44,000 people, give or take several hundred, will have died in auto accidents this year. To put that number in perspective, consider that:
? At the 2006 casualty rate of 800 soldiers per year, the United States would have to be in Iraq for more than 50 years to equal just one year of automobile deaths back home.
? In any five-year period, the total number of traffic deaths in the United States equals or exceeds the number of people who died in the horrific South Asian tsunami in December 2004. U.S. traffic deaths amount to the equivalent of two tsunamis every 10 years.
? According to the National Safety Council, your chance of dying in an automobile crash is one in 84 over your lifetime. But your chances of winning the Mega Millions lottery are just one in 175 million.
? If you laid out side by side 8-by-10 photos of all those killed in crashes this year, the pictures would stretch more than five miles.
? If you made a yearbook containing the photos of those killed this year, putting 12 photos on each page, it would have 3,500 pages. If you wanted to limit your traffic-death yearbook to a manageable 400 pages, you’d either have to squeeze more than 100 photos onto each page or issue an eight-volume set.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackHow sickening is this? BUT YET once again NOBODY wants to do anything about this horrible situation or people that do want to get some action get NOWHERE with their pleas and it all falls on DEAF ears.
What I am about to say is NOT in any way meant with disrespect for MADD and the fact that ONE area of crashes are being prosecuted and murdering drivers are serving time for the deaths of their victims BUT the facts remain that DUI deaths make up 16,000 people and those numbers are wavered, that leaves 25 ,000 deaths in the US that get pushed under a rug by saying ” THEY WERE ACCIDENTS! No an accident is stepping on someone foot not killing someone. THIS IS MURDER, You want to get away with murder? speed , run a pedestrian over, run a red light/ stop sign,Talk on your cell phones put on makeup etc and you can get away with murder . The police, court system, government, and even MADD could care less. They wash their hands because it was JUST an ACCIDENT. How can these people sleep at night knowing that over 44 THOUSAND people per year are killed? They want to take action when someone is murdered by a gun, or knife, but NOT when it involves a car crash. It’s too bad and on they go with their lives. Oh yes the government hands it over to DOT and ram cars into walls at 30 mph with crash dummies and the cops and DOT tell you to CLICK IT or TICKET. Click it? Do they really think this piece of flimsy strap is going to save you when the person killing you is going 80 mph ? or a pedestrian steps out to cross a street and here comes a car FLYING by? That strap isn’t going to do much for them!
The US needs to wake up! Stop pushing this into a corner, DOT needs to stop patting each other on the backs saying we only had 44,322 deaths this year instead of 44,323 last year. This is not an accomplishment. I wonder if these people have had someone KILLED in a crash? Maybe THEN they would do something It’s time to wake up America!
Make a difference go to this web site and take a look this is the TRUE picture!
http://www.crashprevention.org/
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