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[quote=Anonymous]Fun facts. If OP's daughter were in [url=http://www.thecarcrashdetective.com/2016/03/driving-in-norway-safer-than-us-reasons-why.html/]Norway[/url]...

1.) She wouldn't have been able to drive to begin with, keeping her reckless behavior off the road (the limit is 18).

2.) She'd have lost her license automatically for a minimum of 3 months and up to 3 years.

This is one quick example of how permissive our culture is toward reckless driving, speeding, and how statistically, we pay for it in blood.

[quote=CCD]In 2014, there were 5.156 million Norwegians and 147 road deaths. In other words, there were 28.5 road fatalities per million Norwegians, or 2.85 road fatalities per 100,000.

In 2013, there were 316.5 million Americans and 32,719 road deaths in 2013. This figures out to 103.4 road fatalities per million Americans, or 10.34 road fatalities per 100,000.

The ratio of US road deaths to Norwegian road deaths last year, then, was 3.6. [b]In other words, you were almost 4 times more likely to die by auto traffic as an American than a Norwegian.[/b]

That’s huge.

To put it another way, if our death rate had been as low as Norway’s, even when scaled up to our much larger population, [b]we would only have lost around 9,092 men, women, and children instead of 32,719.[/b] Close to 24,000 lives could have been saved.[/quote][/quote]

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