On 1/1/2018 9:32 PM, !Jones wrote:
The first senseless killing of 2018 occurred seven minutes after the
> last senseless killing of 2017.
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Concord, NH : A deadly crash in Milton on Sunday, December, 31st 2017
9:55 PM
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Salt Lake City,UT : Bus crash in Utah kills girl, 13, injures 12 on January, Monday 1st 2018
The expected value of the number of
> people who will die before we have another defensive gun use is about > 1,450 or so.
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> Jones
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In 2016, 40,200 people died in motor vehicle collisions. To put this in context, this is about the same number of people who died in car crashes in 1950. This is the most deaths since 2007.
Most motor vehicle wrecks don't cause injuries. In 2010, there were
5,419,000 police-reported motor vehicle traffic crashes. Only 1,542,000 caused injuries. Most injuries were pretty mild. Plus or minus from year to year, there are approximately 16,000,000 auto accidents in the United States every year. Why are there so many more than the last statistic would suggest? Most car crashes are not reported to the police. Again, In the vast majority of these, no one is injured. There are three million people injured every year in accidents (remember, there at least two people involved in most car accidents, which is why I say no one is injured in most car accidents). Car accidents' total toll on the economy is about $250 billion. (Putting that number in context, it would pay for a quarter of President Obama's health care plan over the next 10 years.) Most of the cost is property damage to vehicles. Car Accident Statistics There are 342,000 auto accident injuries and $43 billion each year in property damage, lost wages, medical bills and fatalities that government statistics attribute to cell phone usage while driving. Guns are unsafe for kids, but cars are much worse. Approximately 115 people die every day in car, truck and motorcycle accident in the United States. Gunshot wounds and car accidents pose the leading threats to children's survival in this country. Car accidents account for 37% and firearms 27% of the 20,000 fatal injuries each year to children ages 1 through 19, according to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Injury Prevention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Traffic crashes are the number one killer of people between the ages of 4 to 34. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - and this is hard to believe - motor vehicle accidents were the leading cause of workplace fatalities. Men and Women Are Different. One-third of women are killed in single-vehicle crashes compared to 55% of men. (Read that again, it is pretty incredible.) Vehicle speed is the greatest predictor of the extent of the driver's injury, followed by the type of crash, the age of the victim, use of a seatbelt, the mass of the vehicle, and sex of the driver. Distracted driving is now the number one killer of American teens. Five seconds is the average time a driver's eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55 mph, that equates to the distance of one football field.