> On 1 Jul, 09:10, "nightjar" .me.uk>
> wrote:

>> "®i©ardo" nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>> news:eZ9ak.188216$9x.86934@newsfe05.ams2...
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>>> Mike P wrote:

>>>> Hooray. Vision zero is still a long way off though. The numbers might
>>>> be low by historic standards, but they are still way too high by
>>>> civilised 21th century standards. Yes, horses used to kill more people
>>>> 100 years ago, but so did wars and epidemics - human life was
>>>> considered cheap back then and we can't use that era as a comparison.
>>>> According to the WHO, car accidents remain the 6th most common cause
>>>> of death in the developed world,

>>> Perhaps you'd like to tell us what the other five are. We could then
>>> prioritise, starting with the greatest cause.

>> According to Wikipedia, the WHO figures in 2002 were:
>>
>> Ischeaemic heart disease 3.5 million
>> Stroke 3.4 million
>> COPD 1.8 million
>> Lower respiratory infections 1.2 million
>> Lung cancer 0.9 million
>> Car accident 0.67 million
>> Stomach cancer 0.65 million
>> High blood pressure 0.64 million
>> TB 0.57 million
>> Suicide 0.5 million
>>
>> That makes death in a traffic accident 17%% more likely than dying from
>> tuberculosis in developed countries.
>>

> Death from a traffic crash is the only one where, in many cases, it is
> caused by an identifiable second person perpetrator. The rest are
> natural deaths, excluding suicide. So, traffic crashes are top of the
> list of killings. Millions are killed each year around the world by
> drivers.
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