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petronius

(26,695 posts)

6. For the LA County data, they've combined injuries and

Reply to barbtries (Reply #4)

Tue Sep 16, 2014, 01:36 PM

Sep 2014

fatalities, but the statewide number is fatalities only. CHP gives 152 fatalities and 13,861 injuries statewide for 2012 (Table 7M); it's not impossible that LA County is more than 1/3 of the injuries. Although it does seem high, maybe the LA numbers are from a different source with a broader definition of 'injury'...