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Posted by Hans (more from Hans) on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:14:24
In Reply to: Heads up! People who name their cars, or refer to them, JBack, Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:52:25
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Typical media. That article means nothing without access to the study. (At CSU's website, I was unable to find it.)
BTW, the article claims 370 deaths and 20,000 injuries per year due to "road rage." For a little perspective, in 2004 (the most recent statistics available from NHTSA), ~42,600 people died in auto accidents, ~2.8 million were injured, and there were ~4.2 million reported accidents without injury. According to their report (link below), "the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles of travel [is] 1.46."
So nearly 1.5 deaths per 100 million miles (assuming Time's stats are good), and, of those, less than 1% of them are road rage related.
Call me apathetic, but I'm not too worried about drivers with vanity plates on their cars...
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF2004/809911.pdf
posted by 24.41.40...
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1562976,00.html
Posts in this Thread:
- Heads up! People who name their cars, or refer to them, JBack, Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:52:25
- Re: Heads up!, -993-, Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:34:07
- Link, Hans, Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:14:24 <-- Viewing This Message
- So beware me :))) (+), Siegfried, Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:34:11
- Re: Heads up! People who name their cars, or refer to, Justin VanAbrahams , Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:25:43
- can you give us more reference info..., Scott Paterson , Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:57:58
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