| Re: Shocking new figures on road deaths in the UK! |
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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: John WrightJohn Wright Date: Jul 2, 2008 12:38
Doug wrote:
> 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...
>>>>> 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:
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>> 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
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>> That makes death in a traffic accident 17%% more likely than dying from
>> tuberculosis in developed countries.
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> 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.
I see you insist on not using the word accident although none of what
you talk about was intended. You also talk rubbish. If someone dies it
does not matter whether its from heart disease or a traffic accident.
They're still dead.
There is a reason why air crashes as you would call them are
investigated by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch and has been so
named since 1915 - before even you were born I suspect.
--
John Wright
"What would happen if you eliminated the autism genes from the gene pool?
You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and
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