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From: smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: 55MPH-save gas?
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 20:43:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 20:43:59 1986
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From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxl!smh

> In article  <7838@watrose.UUCP> tom haapanen writes:
> How about producing highway death stats.

1955	26,100	2.7 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle-miles
1960	38,137
1965	49,163
1970	54,633
1973	55,511
**************** 55 MPH *******************
1974	46,402
1975	45,853	1.3 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle-miles
*********** Light-weight Cars *************
1978	52,411
1979	53,524
1980	53,300
1981	51,500	3.1 deaths per 100,000,000 vehicle-miles
1982	46,000

The statistics are from some dusty almanacs.  The comments
are my own, but compacts and subcompacts have 3 times the
fatality rate of the rubber-wheeled tanks of the 60's and
early 70's.