America's chief health menace: driving
Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS
criminals put together. But nothing is done because the auto industry
makes a fortune off car crashes and bribe the legislators and media into
brainwashing the idiot american to accept it.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2010/01/04/sh
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America's chief health menace: driving
Monday, January 4, 2010 3:04 AM
By Zack McMillin
Of the tragic, avoidable deaths across the country, one cause stands out
well beyond all others.
Some advocates call it America's great, unnoticed public-health menace,
and it can hit any household in any neighborhood, inner city, suburban or
rural; rich or poor; black, white, Asian or Latino. It is the leading
cause of deaths among Americans ages 1 to 34, and it is the leading cause
of long-term disability for all.
Many Americans fear becoming a victim of crime, but statistics show that
we are far more likely to be seriously injured or killed in a vehicle
accident than to be harmed at the hands of criminals.
And yet parents will subject themselves and their children to its danger
each day with little concern.
"People don't generally think of driving as a risky task," said Russ
Rader, of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. "They think that
crashes happen to other people, not themselves. There is a researcher who
calls it the illusory zone of immunity -- when we do things day after day
that are routine, we don't think of them as being particularly dangerous.
"But of course, the statistics show that getting behind the wheel of a
car is probably the riskiest thing any of us do on any given day."
Nationwide, an average of more than 41,000 people died in accidents each
year in the past decade.
And yet, the deadly consequences of car crashes rarely lead TV newscasts
or make it onto the front of the local news section of newspapers.
As blogger Matthew Yglesias pointed out after a commuter-train accident
in Washington, D.C., in June killed nine people and made national news:
"One story you're not going to see leading tomorrow's newspaper is '97
dead in fatal car accidents.' "
That, Yglesias computed, was the average number of people killed in a day
on America's roads.
The Institute for Transportation Engineers has a higher figure,
estimating that an average of 120 people a day die from what it called
"vehicle-related crashes." That's like four major airline disasters
occurring every week, the institute noted.
necromancer - ECHM
>Reckless drivers are a bigger threat to each of us than all other
Idiot knee-jerk americans (sic) like you are the biggest threat out
there, seppo.
--
"I was just your average 'hockey mom' in Alaska. We were
busy raising our kids. I was serving as the team mom and
coaching some basketball on the side."
--Sarah Palin
Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS
news:0sh6k5luvv5i61aie...@4ax.com:
> SFB spewed:
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>>Reckless drivers are a bigger threat to each of us than all other
>
> Idiot knee-jerk americans (sic) like you are the biggest threat out
> there, seppo.
>
The board notes that all you have is namecalling. Sorry i scared you.
M
<xeton2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> necromancer - ECHM <coupe_de_bo...@zinedine-zidane.fr> wrote innews:0sh6k5luvv5i61aie...@4ax.com:
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> > SFB spewed:
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> >>Reckless drivers are a bigger threat to each of us than all other
>
> > Idiot knee-jerk americans (sic) like you are the biggest threat out
> > there, seppo.
>
> The board notes that all you have is namecalling. Sorry i scared you.
But in this case, there are two things that should be mentioned
1) It isn't "the board." S&DDAM, you are such a crossposting loon
that it is FIVE boards.
2) He's right. I am nowhere where a car is a threat and most people
posting or reqding are not at risk for car accidents. While we read
at least, cross-posting psychos, such as $&DDAM, are a far bigger
threat to our health than drivers are.
Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS
news:a13fc45d-0960-4609...@26g2000yqo.googlegroups.com:
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> 2) He's right. I am nowhere where a car is a threat and most people
> posting or reqding are not at risk for car accidents.
You're right. They aren't accidents, they're crashes and we're all at
extreme risk of being in one. No matter how careful you are, a speeder,
DUI, or cell-driver can nail you.
N8N
<xeton2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> M <m...@pitt.edu> wrote innews:a13fc45d-0960-4609...@26g2000yqo.googlegroups.com:
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>
>
> > 2) He's right. I am nowhere where a car is a threat and most people
> > posting or reqding are not at risk for car accidents.
>
> You're right. They aren't accidents, they're crashes and we're all at
> extreme risk of being in one.
Agreed, although "extreme" is overstating it.
> No matter how careful you are, a speeder,
> DUI, or cell-driver can nail you.
Far more likely than any of those is just your garden variety idiot
suffering from rectal-cranial inversion.
nate