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PoindexterOglethorpe

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4. Plus, even before people started staying home with this,

Reply to SpankMe (Original post)

Mon Jul 13, 2020, 04:19 PM

Jul 2020

traffic deaths had been dropping for years.

1969 had the largest number of traffic deaths per 100,000 population, 26.42.
1972 had the largest absolute number of traffic deaths, 54,589.

What changed was a combination of seat belt use, cars themselves being safer, and a lot of public pressure on people not to drink and drive.

Here's a useful chart:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year

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Comparing COVID-19 mortality rate to traffic deaths [View all] SpankMe Jul 2020 OP

Get in the car with my mom, and you'll be singing a different tune! Beakybird Jul 2020 #1

A shutdown would reduce those deaths lame54 Jul 2020 #2

35K in 12 months, 112K in three months ... comparable? (112K since April 12) Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2020 #3

Plus, even before people started staying home with this, PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #4

And then there's the hospitalizations, organ damage... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #5

"the money-obsessed" PSPS Jul 2020 #7

If you stopped sending out first responders to auto accidents you wouldn't have this problem. Thomas Hurt Jul 2020 #6

This virus will be the leading cause of death for the next year or two. hunter Jul 2020 #8