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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Baloo: [QB] I won't hazard a guess, but if I did, I'd bet that Americans are not necessarily the safest drivers, but we probably have fewer accidents per passenger mile traveled than any (or many) other country. Here's the data for 1996 (again, the latest year for which I could find data): 6,842,000 total, with a crash rate of 276 crashes per 100 million miles (or 27.6 per billion). 37,351 of those were fatal, for a fatality rate of 1.5 per 100 billion miles. Let's see if we can find the data for Canada, U.K., Australia, Germany, etc., and compare (after converting statistics to a mutually intelligible statistic, like "crashes/fatalities per million kilometers, or some such). I'm curious, but it took a @#$% long time to find the stats I did. It looks like the agencies with the numbers are so proud of their sites, they want you to wander around in a dazed wonder, admiring their handiwork. Of course, it doesn't help that U.S. Government sites tend to use "Bureaucratese", so nothing you want is called by a name you recognize. The above information was listed as "Crashes and Crash Rates by Month and Severity". Almost obvious, once you wade past the 5 or so peripherally-related pages to get there. --Baloo [/QB][/QUOTE]
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