Road toll 390 times terrorism deaths - research

**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.

**sAsLEX** · 2nd December 2005, 10:09

wouldn't take americas angle on it, they think they are too mighty to wear seatbelts for fuk sakes let Darwin take care of them!

Oh no NZ's must be up near 1/0

**TwoSeven** · 2nd December 2005, 10:57

I think I posted something on this a while back.

Basically in the years since the war there have been 2300 personell killed in Iraq, considering about 150,000 serve there evey year, that means you have about 0.5% chance of getting knocked on the head by a mad mullah each year you serv in iraq. There were 43000 road deaths in the US YTD 1st Aug 2005. That means you have about a 0.01% chance of getting run over by a car if you are a US citizen.

Also, there death rate in the US is 8.5/1000 (population 280 million) - does that mean there is a 0.8% chance of dying normally in the US. That would make it safer to be in Iraq would it not ?

The birth rate is 14.4/1000 people, so that gives you a high chance of being born a US citizen should you get reincarnated.

Also, in 2002 there were 30,000 gun related deaths in the US of which 17,000 were suicides. That means, in a 3 year period there were roughly 90,000 gun related deaths and about half of them were people topping themselves.

**Karma** · 2nd December 2005, 11:03

QUICK!! REDUCE THE SPEED LIMIT!!

**Motu** · 2nd December 2005, 12:00

Originally Posted by TwoSeven

The birth rate is 14.4/1000 people, so that gives you a high chance of being born a US citizen should you get reincarnated.

Just in case I take this option - what are my chances of becoming President??

**madboy** · 2nd December 2005, 12:33

Originally Posted by Motu

Just in case I take this option - what are my chances of becoming President??

You'd have to be born into a rich and powerful family, which you have no control over. But to increase your chances I'd suggest you make sure the shot is to the head, leaving your brain beyond repair and it can't be reincarnated with the rest of your soul.

**Wolf** · 2nd December 2005, 15:31

Originally Posted by TwoSeven

The birth rate is 14.4/1000 people, so that gives you a high chance of being born a US citizen should you get reincarnated.

Thanks for the warning, perhaps it's time to change religion to one that does not believe in reincarnation.

Or believe in a form of reincarnation that allows you to pick where you go. (Rules out all the Karmic ones)

**TwoSeven** · 2nd December 2005, 19:45

Originally Posted by Motu

Just in case I take this option - what are my chances of becoming President??

Zero, because you are a foreigner. However, if you did become president, your odds of being shot are quite high. Just ask ronnie and abe.

**myvice** · 4th December 2005, 17:53

Quote from Air Plane;
"I say, let em crash"
Couldn’t have said it better myself...

**WINJA** · 4th December 2005, 20:47

ITS NOT A WAR ON TERRORISIM ITS A WAR ON SAND NIGERS , THAT BUSH IS A MORON

**scumdog** · 5th December 2005, 02:14

Originally Posted by WINJA

ITS NOT A WAR ON TERRORISIM ITS A WAR ON SAND NIGERS , THAT BUSH IS A MORON

'NIGERS' is actually spelt NIGGERS btw you illiterate!.

Get your shit together, if you're going to cast slurs at least spell properly!! (or effoff and paint your rapidly deteriorating roof!)

**Biff** · 5th December 2005, 09:18

Originally Posted by Motu

Just in case I take this option - what are my chances of becoming President??

Depends. They'd vote for any old muppet (no offence intended) providing you're:

a) Rich
b) Have a rich daddy
c) Stoopid (and rich)
d) A famous actor (and rich)
e) A (rich) war monger

To all our Hamerican friends here. No offence intended unless you're offended, or voted for the current muppet.