My spectulation was that traffic accidents would be more likely fatal if occurring on an expressway/Interstate rather than a local road. That speculation was only that as I said.
There was never any doubt that more accidents occur in the cities but they are generally at a lower rate of speed. It is a truism that more accidents occur close to home.
Rather than "dismiss" anything out of hand I examined what the figure of a trillion per YEAR would mean on a per capita basis and found it to be so unlikely that it dismisses itself. Throwing in your ten year figure is not something that should be in the calculation. Your figure is more believable no matter how you arrived at it however.
I missed the part in the quote where you refer to the cost being over 1 trillion per year. Perhaps you would care to point me to the post that correctly quotes someone making that assertion, or would that be to incovenient for your self defense.
Since that is 83,000 per Illegal it can be dismissed out of hand.
It appears you are the one saying you dismissed it out of hand, not I.
It's curious that you would say that illegals are not associated with traffic fatalities in Chicago. NHTSA data shows Hispanics as 5 times more likely than causasians to be involved in a fatal traffic accident. Chicago makes a practice of not recording or releasing the residency information of those involved in fatal accidents. Since 5 times as many Hispanics are involved in fatal accidents and the residency status is not released, what would be the basis for...
"Occasionally you will see an accident with Illegals but they are not that common."
Looks to me like information without basis and pretty much valueless. No I am wrong there. It did prompt me to spend time digging through Federal and state goverment data, insurance records and a few studies. I handn't intended to, but your posts prompted me to invest the time. Quite revealing information. You won't like what you find, but perhaps you should do the same before dismissing anything else.