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		fransje26 26 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Americans die from vs. what the news reports ... For posterity: - The UK had an estimated death rate of 4.7 road fatalities per billion vehicle miles travelled in 2024 [1] - The US had an estimated 12.6 road fatalities per billion vehicle miles travelled in 2023 [2] [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua... [2] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

rsynnott 26 days ago [–]

Oh, huh, that's actually a bigger discrepancy than the stats I was looking at (from 2022 for the UK and 2021 for the US, from wikipedia). Looks like the UK is down modestly since then, the US up modestly.

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