Road fatalities per 100,000 population in major US States, Australian States and Canadian Provinces : mildlyinteresting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You gotta enforce traffic laws in order to maintain safety.

Also*, where is Maine?

[–] HikingVet 1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Chart is incomplete

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How you know this is good data

No sources. Just a chart.
Randomly compares some places in North American to some places in Australia.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Oh come on. I don’t think there’s another country on the planet as car-dependent as the US. We have more cars, we drive far, far more than these countries, so of course there will be more deaths. Try it per person/mile driven and I bet the numbers shift quite a bit and it won’t be so dramatic, but the US will still come out “ahead.” On average I’d also bet the US has far higher average travel speed as well generating a higher possibility of fatal accidents.

Edit: Here. Sort by billion km driven. US is #8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

Still high, but in context the OP doesn’t offer.

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[+] [email protected] -12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not hard to keep accidents down when only one person drives on the road at a time.

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Mildly Interesting