Posted on 10/01/2015 1:54:24 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Traffic fatalities in the United States have been plummeting for years, a major victory for regulation (strict drunken driving laws have helped) and auto innovation (we have safer cars). But that progress obscures a surprising type of inequality: The most disadvantaged are more likely — and have grown even more likely over time — to die in car crashes than people who are well-off.
New research by Sam Harper, Thomas J. Charters and Erin C. Strumpf, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, finds that improvements in road safety since the 1990s haven't been evenly shared. The biggest declines in fatalities have occurred among the most educated. As for people 25 and older with less than a high school diploma, fatality rates have actually increased over time, bucking the national trend.
The underlying issue here is not that a college degree makes you a better driver. Rather, the least-educated tend to live with a lot of other conditions that can make getting around more dangerous. They own cars that are older and have lower crash-test ratings. Those with less education are also likely to earn less and to have the money for fancy safety features such as side airbags, automatic warnings and rear cameras.
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My buddies and I were just a bunch of Midwest hicks with POS Pintos, Vegas, Novas, etc. We drove them hard and fast, hill hopped, and played headlight tag. None of use died either. Sounds like you “Eye-talians” would have joined right in.
But we were all good drivers thanks to a superb HS drivers Ed teacher.
Seems to me it’s the illegal community that drives the nastiest, junkiest, res cars.
I agree with your outrage.
I’m outraged that drunk drivers die much more often than sober drivers.
Talk about your inequality. Something MUST be done for drunk drivers.
We would have had a blast together!!! :)
Trust me, the other boroughs consider us outcasts on Staten Island because we’re VERY conservative.
Hicks and eye-talians, lol. could have been a movie :)
How about the hidden inequality of violent racism here? Its whites and the crime stats prove it, yet we hear zip about it.
No, cash for clunkers was designed to make new cars cheaper for people who could already afford them and used cars more expensive for the poor.
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Bingo.
I used my 3rd car that I really didn’t want as $5000 down toward the purchase of a nice new car that I didn’t really need.
Meanwhile - the poor get poorer.
Study compares deaths in accidents per vehicle mile. Would be useful to see the stats for involvement in accidents, i.e. collisions, broken out by education level. I’m not saying it’s the case, but it could be that those with less education and/or from lower socioeconomic status, are more prone to speeding, reckless driving, drunk driving, etc. The best way to survive a car accident is to not be in it in the first place.
Seat belts, air bags, better cars, fewer impaired or just stupid drivers. Darwinism at work. Just read an article this weekend about 4 young men with typical made-up black names being killed when their 1980-something Caddy crashed at over 100 MPH while running from cops for a minor traffic infraction.
We already do, do you know how many people I stand behind in groceries lines while they pay for their food with their EBT, then go load the groceries into the latest Escalade? That’s not good wnough, we have to buy them Lamborghinis? They’d better get with Planned Infanticide on that one.
>> They might also be people who make poor decisions <<
I think that’s really the main key. For example, researchers have known for 45 years or more that accident rates are well-correlated with social factors like divorce, crime, education, substance abuse, etc.
(I say “45 years” because I remember attending a seminar in the late 1960’s where an academic statistician presented findings on the correlations mentioned above.)
We had no Italians or Catholics until the DiSalvo’s moved out to the sticks. They owned Mama’s Casa Mia in a nearby city. The youngest brother was the biggest red neck around even if he talked and smelled funny. His big bro became the county DA and led the way for concealed carry in our state.
I always thought the neighbor hoods on LI reminded me of the hollers of KY. I never realized until I started working on LI how rednecked y’all were.
IOW, they live in the crime-ridden ghettos which they create, because “snitches get stitches”, and the police trying to enforce law and order are the enemy. I say fence them in, throw on some loads of assualt rifles, and let them have at it. At the least, the police shoud give them what they want and leave them alone, so they can continue to kill each other over Kool Aid “recipes”. When all but a few are gone, evacuate them, then burn the place and salt the earth so the diseases can’t spread.
Drugs and booze.
They’re not going to like His answer. It shows the mercy of God that in my sanctified body, I will no have no inclination to gloat, because my natural man wants to.
Very :) We tried to get a race track on Staten Island but the other boroughs actually called us rednecks and we had too much opposition.
only half a million of us out of 8 million.
and you would die laughing if you heard my accent. I cant even use the voice app to leave messages because all the words come out wrong. :)
Pretty much. But a fair number of them appear to have mechanical skills to keep these sh!tboxes on the road.
Old Chryco minivans seems to be their #1 pick, probably because they have a lot of offspring.
Good for you, I was getting pretty upset with the way this thread was going too, having driven my share of older, less safe, cars in my youth. Let’s blame everyone who is having a tough time, shall we?
When I was young, and the Republican party an entirely different thing, and Republicans an entirely different people, we felt that personal charity and compassion for the plight of the poor the mark of a civilized people.
While we certainly did oppose govt spending beyond the a basic safety net that should only be instituted on the local level, with plenty of on personal charity to supplement, we were not brutal churls, insulting and smug, cruel to those less fortunate, and uncaring as to what became of them.
Perhaps we deserve the wretched republican party we have these days, because based on this thread, it appears that we are pretty wretched ourselves.
Well then, they will find some way to use our money to make a new and improved public transportation system. Maybe free breakfast on buses, pickup at the door options, etc.
I drive an old 4x4, having been nearly killed because of air bags deploying in MrT5’s 2002 convertible when they should not have-I choose not to repeat that experience. No gadgets make for more careful, alert driving, in my opinion. The drivers’ ed instructor I had only used vehicles with a stick-you learned to drive one, or else...
Don’t forget wi-fi and live MSNBC / CNN on video screens.
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