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conulyThis is partially because the death rate due to car crashes has gone down significantly, by about 25% - very good news! - but it's ALSO partially because suicides have gone up. Not so good.
I wonder how they tally up people who commit suicide by crashing a car or jumping into traffic? Also, I wonder if I should conveniently forget this little fact. See, whenever somebody loudly declaims how unsafe it is "nowadays" and how awful it is that ANYbody could EVER let their child go OUTSIDE where all the STRANGERS are (and walking to school alone is right out, of course), I pop up and point out that the single most dangerous thing most people do to their child every day is drive them somewhere. Death by strangers? Rare. Death by being unattended? Not that common. Death by cars? It is, I tell them, the leading cause of death for all Americans.
And now I can't say that, can I? It's probably still true that it's the leading cause of death for Americans under 15 (who are, perforce, non-drivers), but it's a bit wordy.
I wonder how they tally up people who commit suicide by crashing a car or jumping into traffic? Also, I wonder if I should conveniently forget this little fact. See, whenever somebody loudly declaims how unsafe it is "nowadays" and how awful it is that ANYbody could EVER let their child go OUTSIDE where all the STRANGERS are (and walking to school alone is right out, of course), I pop up and point out that the single most dangerous thing most people do to their child every day is drive them somewhere. Death by strangers? Rare. Death by being unattended? Not that common. Death by cars? It is, I tell them, the leading cause of death for all Americans.
And now I can't say that, can I? It's probably still true that it's the leading cause of death for Americans under 15 (who are, perforce, non-drivers), but it's a bit wordy.
