DrLex
Member Since: 15 Jul 2005
Location: Ciderspace [Oi be in Zummerset]
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dickgriff wrote:...Afterall the death rate for car drivers & occupants has remained fairly static in the UK , hovering around the 1 per 100,000 million Km mark, in the 10 year period to 2004. And yet vehicles are supposedly getting safer  So, does better safety = more risk taking = same amount of deaths ?....
I haven't seen the statistics in detail, but if I understand your figure to be deaths per 100,000M Km travelled, that seems to be independent of the increasing number of vehicles on the road, which surely is an important consideration, as road-building must lag behind car number growth. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
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 4th Jul 2006 8:19 am |
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