Ban the car!

[mikesilvia]

Over 400,000 deaths happen each year due to traffic accidents. A few hundred deaths in a Iraq gets thousands of hours of news each year, but we never hear about the real global killer; the car. Over 400,000 people die each year and the cost is around $518 billion in property damage because of this invention and for the safety of the human race and our bank accounts we need to ban it!

About 30 percent of all traffic deaths worldwide -- roughly 400,000 each year -- are of people younger than 25. Although teenage and young-adult drivers are at greatest risk, younger age groups also have high mortality. In 2002, traffic injuries were the third leading cause of death for children ages 5 to 9, behind pneumonia and AIDS. About 46 percent of traffic deaths in sub-Saharan Africa occurred in that age group that year.

For all countries, the annual cost of road injuries in medical care, disability and property damage is $518 billion, according to the report. In low- and middle-income countries, the cost is larger than the amount received from rich countries as development aid.

It is time we take this global killer seriously!

[doniceage]

Mike,
For every situation you can dig up some things. It all about sentalionalism and ratings LOL.

p.s. Imus, NBC and their footage of the shooter, they go for broke to milk it for all it worth. WHile many newsworthy events that should be reported go unreported. TIS LIFE.


DON