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Dennis.Jensen@dwt.csiro.au (Dennis Jensen) wrote:

>>You didn't give enough information to make that judgement however in
>>this case there should be an absence of marks on the roadway
>>indicating driver input.

>But Earl, in that case, what would you attribute a crash to where the driver 
>used threshold braking, but still crashed and killed him/herself?

I still don't have enough information to make that judgment.  

>Huh, I don't get it. The person was in a car, if they hadn't been, they 
>probably wouldn't have died, right?

You misunderstand.  I'm talking about a case where the heart attack
causes the crash, not the other way around.  We still investigate the
crash but the death is not listed as a traffic fatality.

>Earl, if you have a country where you have 200 cars, and they drive an average 
>of 1000mile pa, and 100 people are killed in car crashes, or you have a 
>country with 1 million cars, where people drive 10 000miles pa, and there are 
>150 fatalities pa, which countries roads would you prefer to drive? I would 
>prefer the second, despite the increased fatalities (but vastly lesser 
>fatality RATE). 

You'd prefer increased fatalities?  I truly hope you never lose a
loved one lest this come back to haunt you.  Those are real people out
there, not a bunch of numbers.   

Here's one of them. 

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6123/victim.jpg

Take a good long hard look and then tell me all about how her death is
acceptable to you and then I'll tell you about the day we met.  Just
another number huh?


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