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April 2007, Vol 97, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 588
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.106153

LETTER

PUBLIC POLICIES DETERMINE TRAFFIC DEATHS AND FUEL USE

Leonard Evans, DPhil

Leonard Evans is with Science Serving Society, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Leonard Evans, President, Science Serving Society, 973 Satterlee Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304-3153 (e-mail: le@scienceservingsociety.com) (Web site: http://www.scienceservingsociety.com).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

The purpose of this letter is not to dispute or endorse Robertson’s1 detailed findings, but to question their relevance. As documented in my book Traffic Safety,2 vehicle characteristics are not central to either safety or fuel use.

The relative unimportance of vehicles to safety is revealed by comparing fatality time trends in different countries.2(381–388) From 1979 through 2002, Britain, Canada, and Australia reduced fatalities by an average of 49%, compared with 16% in the United States. If US deaths had dropped by 49%, more than 16 000 fewer Americans would have died in 2002. The corresponding calculation was applied . . . [Full Text]






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