Re: suburbia kills

On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Michael Smith wrote:

On 08/15/07 05:15:00 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:

Death rates for 1- to-24-year-old males are 60 per 100,000 in cities, versus 80 in rural areas.

That’s gotta be mostly driving deaths, don’t you think?

Yup, a lot of it. A while back I did a quickie comparison of driving
death rates for a few states. New York was relatively low and
Alabama, high. And rural Alabama was far higher than urban Alabama.
So it’s not just young men.

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