This page has some excellent stats and illustrations on auto accidents etc.
http://www.automatedtransport.com/htmlv03.html
The deadly toll of auto accidents
6,328,000 auto accidents (USA, 2003) [1]
42,643 fatal auto accident deaths (USA, 2003) [1]
2.9 million injuries (USA, 2003) [1]
230 billion dollars in economic losses (2003) [1]
#1 cause of death for ages 3 to 33 (USA, 2003) [2]
750,000 to 880,000 est. annual deaths worldwide (1999) [3]
23 to 34 million est. annual injuries worldwide (1999
These numbers may be hard to comprehend–but it is worthwhile to consider their true impact. The first illustration at right is a one-square-foot cube made up of 50,00 pennies. Now consider that 42,643 people killed in car accidents in 2003. Look at the cube of pennies and imagine that each penny represents a person who died suddenly in a car wreck. Then consider also the suffering of the family and friends of each one of those 42,643 people.
Reading “2.9 million injuries” may not twist your guts. But it’s a different matter knowing that injuries include disfigurement, amputation, loss of sight, brain damage and paralysis.
Whoops, people are also killed by saddle stock.