Death toll from road accidents 390 times that from terrorism: study

[align=left]Death toll from road accidents 390 times that from terrorism: study
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[align=left]AFP | December 1 2005
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[align=left]Comment: This proves a point. People get in their cars and drive on the highway every day without even thinking of the risks, because that's freedom. Yet they fear non-existent terrorists and government fearmongering. Perception is reality.
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[align=left]The body count from road accidents in developed economies is 390 times higher than the death toll in these countries from international terrorism, says a study appearing in a specialist journal, Injury Prevention. In 2001, as many people died every 26 days on American roads as died in the terrorist attacks of 9/11, it says.
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Researchers led by Nick Wilson of Otago University, New Zealand, trawled through a US State Department database of deaths caused by international terrorism, and compared this with an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development database on road crash deaths among 29 OECD countries.

The study covered two years, in 2000 and 2001.

The authors acknowledge the widespread emotional, political and economic impacts of terrorism, but they also point out the enormous difference in scale between the two death tolls.

"Policymakers need to be aware of this when allocating resources to preventing these two avoidable causes of mortality," they say.

Accidents happen, terrorist attacks shouldn't and there's nothing wrong with a little prevention.
Kinda like not being able to drive at whatever speed you want. Since thats your comparison. :rasta:

The statistics in that study are not reassuring to those of us that work in, or near, areas or buildings that are acknowledged al quada targets.

The pork-barrel method of allocating U.S. government anti-terrorism resources should overwhelmingly favor the "target" cities such as New York, Los Angeles, etc. If Kansas, Wyoming, and most other states were at a significant risk, then they should also receive their fair share of these measures of protection - but they are not, and most of their funds is a waste of money that could be better spent for protection elsewhere.

what about the acknowledged government, cfr, bilderberg targets, just to name a few organizations?