Bartman10
2nd December 2005, 09:53
From www.stuff.co.nz
"We need to protect our fella Texans and Americans by bombing Iraq" Yeah, Right.
02 December 2005
New Zealand researchers say the body count from road accidents in developed economies is 390 times higher than the death toll in these countries from international terrorism.
Researchers led by Nick Wilson of Otago University, reported in a specialist journal, Injury Prevention, that in 2001, as many people died every 26 days on American roads as died in the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
"Policy makers need to consider these issues when allocating resources towards preventable interventions that can save lives from these two avoidable causes of mortality," said Dr Wilson, a public health researcher at the university's Wellington medical school.
The group trawled through a US State Department database of deaths caused by international terrorism, and compared this with an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development database on road crash deaths among 29 OECD countries.
They used the US State Department Counterterrorism Office database for deaths caused by international terrorist activity in 2000 and 2001.
For the 29 OECD countries, 33 acts of international terrorism occurred during the study period, accounting for 3064 deaths, excluding those of the perpetrators.
The attacks all occurred in 10 of the OECD countries, with the highest number of fatal attacks in Turkey.
The annual death rate from car crashes was around 390 times higher than the death toll from international terrorism.
Among the 10 countries where people had died as a result of international terrorism, the ratio of road deaths to terrorist deaths ranged from 142 times greater in the US to over 55,000 times greater in Poland.
Deaths from car crashes were equivalent to the impact of a 9/11 attack every nine days, for all the countries put together.
The study cites other evidence, suggesting that the number of Americans who avoided flying after 9/11 and were subsequently killed in car crashes was higher than the total number of passengers who died on the four 9/11 flights. The authors pointed out there was a huge difference in the scale of death between terrorism and car crashes. And the evidence to inform policy is also much greater for car crashes.
"We need to protect our fella Texans and Americans by bombing Iraq" Yeah, Right.
02 December 2005
New Zealand researchers say the body count from road accidents in developed economies is 390 times higher than the death toll in these countries from international terrorism.
Researchers led by Nick Wilson of Otago University, reported in a specialist journal, Injury Prevention, that in 2001, as many people died every 26 days on American roads as died in the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
"Policy makers need to consider these issues when allocating resources towards preventable interventions that can save lives from these two avoidable causes of mortality," said Dr Wilson, a public health researcher at the university's Wellington medical school.
The group trawled through a US State Department database of deaths caused by international terrorism, and compared this with an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development database on road crash deaths among 29 OECD countries.
They used the US State Department Counterterrorism Office database for deaths caused by international terrorist activity in 2000 and 2001.
For the 29 OECD countries, 33 acts of international terrorism occurred during the study period, accounting for 3064 deaths, excluding those of the perpetrators.
The attacks all occurred in 10 of the OECD countries, with the highest number of fatal attacks in Turkey.
The annual death rate from car crashes was around 390 times higher than the death toll from international terrorism.
Among the 10 countries where people had died as a result of international terrorism, the ratio of road deaths to terrorist deaths ranged from 142 times greater in the US to over 55,000 times greater in Poland.
Deaths from car crashes were equivalent to the impact of a 9/11 attack every nine days, for all the countries put together.
The study cites other evidence, suggesting that the number of Americans who avoided flying after 9/11 and were subsequently killed in car crashes was higher than the total number of passengers who died on the four 9/11 flights. The authors pointed out there was a huge difference in the scale of death between terrorism and car crashes. And the evidence to inform policy is also much greater for car crashes.