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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's around 2.5 per 100 000 in Norway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How the heck are Victorians down the bottom? Is it just the sheer size of our population keeping that number in check...?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you can survive hook turns you can survive anything.

Also less country for country driving

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm guessing gun violence is much the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The thing that surprised me most after moving to Oregon was how bad the drivers were. I've lived in many states across the South, the Midwest, and West Coast and I've never encountered drivers so consistently vindictive, entitled and reckless as the drivers in Oregon.

[–] humanspiral 2 points 1 week ago

I assume this includes pedestrians and cyclist deaths? It's by population rather than by "car" or "km driven" but I'd like to see a per county breakdown.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

. . . Huh. Here in Vic every year we get targeted with so many ads being like 'worse year ever for road deaths, drive safe, etc'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Wait what?? British Columbia is less than Alberta? There are single lanes in dangerous areas in comparison to Alberta.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The hell is a "major state"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The fact that California, a state with THIRTEEN TIMES MORE PEOPLE than Mississippi, has less than half the number of traffic fatalities is mind blowing. Mississippi is just 30% of the landmass that California represents, and yet it gets more than double the amount of traffic fatalities.

Looking at the left side of the graph, the trend is easily recognizable. Drunk angry and repressed, poverty stricken republicans will drive drunk like it's the right to bear arms. The further right you go, the more democratic the state.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Clearly fake as it doesn't show a state that's better the non Americans. In big America, there are clearly more states!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

In fairness Australia has a low population density, and is not so mountainous, and we have very little snow et cetera.

That said I guess we do have hazards like kangaroos, and a larger road network to maintain (per capita).

Also depending on. When these stats are from they might pre-date the influx of shitty over-sized little-mans American cars. Thats sure to increase the rates of fatalities.

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