Originally Posted by
JoeyBike
I don't have a link for you, but the equivalent of 10 Boeing 747 jets full to capacity die on US highways ever single day in auto crashes. Seems high to me and I may stand corrected. Google for yourself.[/URL]
The well known figure is something like 45000 deaths per year in the US. Divide by 365 to get 124 deaths per day. If you look at individual days, it's likely that some weekdays, or holidays, might have 3 747s full. I don't know if I've ever even seen a 747, so I'm off googling...416 passengers in the minimum configuration, so that's around 4160 people. Nope, no way it's that many even on something like new year's day. I'd be surprised if even one 747 full died in the US on any given day.
That could be close worldwide. Looks like the worldwide road fatality number is in the range of 1.17 million. That's 3200 a day. That's at least within spitting distance.