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Old 04-10-2008, 08:50 PM   #22 (permalink)
trebuchet03
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Originally Posted by Lazarus View Post
Driving is safer then flying? Who would of thunk it.

http://www.ur.umich.edu/0203/Jan20_03/18.shtml
It says 1 out of 2,067,000 for flying and 1 out of 7,700 for driving....

that, with a footnote of
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Other than the persons aboard the aircraft who were killed, fatalities resulting from the September 11 terrorist acts are excluded.
Here's some selected data from the original publication for 1996 only (census data) in an easy to read format...


Original publication abstract for raw data here ->http://www.census.gov/prod/www/stati...1995_2000.html
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