I was following the links provided in another thread and came across
an interesting article.
I came across several interesting quotes in the article:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its latest Vital Signs report on Wednesday that found the U.S. had the highest fatality rate for car crashes in 2013 among 20 affluent countries that were examined.
In 2013, the traffic fatality rate in the U.S. was more than twice the average of other wealthy countries.
The findings come in the wake of another alarming federal report on traffic deaths, which found motor vehicle fatalities in the U.S. spiked 7.7 percent in 2015.
About 35,200 people were killed in car crashes last year, according to preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
from here
OUr media tends to focus on other sporting goods as being associated with higher death rates than found in other affluent countries; but this study pushes me to a bit of reflection. I have often felt, due to immigration practices and policies that stretch back for centuries,that the US was populated by the risk takers, the aggressive and slightly more care-free, in a word, the bold, sometimes stupidly so. I look at this articles and ask, is it our nature?