http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/nhtsa-2015-traffic-deaths-up-07012016
Our seems to have plateaued in recent years.
What's to be done?
U.S. road deaths up 7%
U.S. road deaths up 7%
Martin - Bristol Advanced Motorists: IMI National Observer, Group Secretary, Masters (dist), DSA: ADI, Fleet, RoSPA (Dip)
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martine wrote:http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/nhtsa-2015-traffic-deaths-up-07012016
Our seems to have plateaued in recent years.
What's to be done?
Does anything need to be done? What's an acceptable level of fatalities for the freedom driving provides?
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jont- wrote:martine wrote:http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/nhtsa-2015-traffic-deaths-up-07012016
Our seems to have plateaued in recent years.
What's to be done?
Does anything need to be done? What's an acceptable level of fatalities for the freedom driving provides?
Good question but thinking about the US increase, I'd be concerned something is changing for the worse that should be addressed. The report reckons only 4% of the increase can be explained by economic recovery.
Martin - Bristol Advanced Motorists: IMI National Observer, Group Secretary, Masters (dist), DSA: ADI, Fleet, RoSPA (Dip)
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Does it say what category is seeing the increase?
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martine wrote:Good question but thinking about the US increase, I'd be concerned something is changing for the worse that should be addressed.
And if the answer is deskilling (for which at least in the UK it's obvious there's no political appetite to address)?
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"An estimated 35,200 people died in 2015"
Added to which . . .
"13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured [those figures exclude suicide]."
Added to which . . .
"13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured [those figures exclude suicide]."
Your 'standard' is how you drive alone, not how you drive during a test.
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Considering that in many states you can get a license at age 14 and that also in some states all you have to do is to show you can move and stop the vehicle, I'm not surprised.
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Horse wrote:"An estimated 35,200 people died in 2015"
Added to which . . .
"13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and 26,819 people were injured [those figures exclude suicide]."
That is astonishing. And people think Israel is a dangerous place...
For all the terrorist attacks (and a small-scale war in 2014), for the past two years we averaged less that fifty people dying under such circumstances, and that's considered a lot compared to past years....
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The report shows that te rises are in pedestrian and two wheeled riders (motorised and human powered).
I wonder if this is anything to do with the ever safer cars with ever more restricted vision.
Having said that the detail is missing as to types of accident and the causes.
I wonder if this is anything to do with the ever safer cars with ever more restricted vision.
Having said that the detail is missing as to types of accident and the causes.
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So the solution is simple: get those pedestrians to travel by car! dammit! problem solved.
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