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From: jat@hpsemc.UUCP (Joe Talmadge)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: CA law regarding left-lane driving DE style
Message-ID: <7120021@hpsemc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 87 19:42:03 GMT
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Organization: HP SEMC, Cupertino, CA
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Hmmm.  we seem to have drifted a bit from the original subject.  To
get back to the argument (i.e., where are the worst drivers in the
world) -- From _The_Arabs_ _Journeys_Beyond_the_Mirage, by David Lamb:

"Undeniably, though, lives were saved when Cairo's unruly drivers were
immobilized by traffic jams of classic proportions, because the city's
accident rate--eighty fatalities and six hundred injuries per ten
thousand vehicles--is the highest in the world, according to a World
Bank study.  At that rate, the United States' traffic toll would be
1.3 million dead and nearly 10 million injured every year*.

*Traffic accidents in the United States average forty-five
thousand dead and 1.7 million injured annually."


Joe Talmadge