Thanks To Our Government: We’re Safer And More Secure Behind The Wheel

Posted on | November 9, 2009 | Comments Off on Thanks To Our Government: We’re Safer And More Secure Behind The Wheel

Mike Magee MD

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We’ve had our share of worry and fear, gloom and doom in the past year. And a healthy dose of misinformation centered on the debate over whether our government is “good for something” or “good for nothing”. I’m of course in the “something” crowd, not out of nostalgia, or blind optimism, but because the facts support me.

Case in point: automobile safety. Do you know that auto mortalities have dropped nearly 20% in real terms in just the past four years. And it’s not because of fewer miles driven during the recession. The figures I’m about to site measure mortality against 100 million vehicle miles traveled. In 2005, there were 1.46 motor vehicle deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. For this year, the projected number is 1.19. In lives lost, 43,510 died on the roads in 2005 and fewer than 35,000 are projected to die this year.(1)(2)

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