Death rates correlate with education levels, urbanization rate, alcohol consumption, car size, driving laws, speed cameras, and road design.
Death rates correlate with education levels, urbanization rate, alcohol consumption, car size, driving laws, speed cameras, and road design.
Fatalities per capita is probably less interesting than fatalities per unit of distance driven.
Or fatalities per drive-thru daiquiri bar
There are states in Australia that can swallow Texas whole. Long distance driving is unavoidable, so it’s less useful as a metric because it can’t be changed easily. It would mean improving public transport, subsidising domestic flights, etc - and we all know how likely that is.