Lost from the cradle of connection: the high price of driving
...e the word pedestrian) A further 22,000 people were injured by car drivers. 735 of the dead were cyclists FYI, 3,551,332 people have died in the US in motor vehicle accidents since we invented cars. The chart of this year by year progression is grimly interesting. As is this chart of countries by traffic related death rates. In sum, every year I’ve been alive, an average of 45,000 people have died–in the US alone–simply because they needed to get...
