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I found out today from my socials 11 teacher that while 9/11 was a travesty only appx. 3500 people died, not wounded or injured, but died.

each day in America alone appx. 5000 people die from vehicle related accidents. Hit and runs, pedestrians, collisions etc.

Why isnt this in the news more often?

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It is, but you're in Canada so you don't see my Local news, which a few months ago went something like this:

Shooting
Murder
Abduction/Amber Alert
Health
Murder
Protests
Shooting
Accident
Lakers
Weather

and all sorts of stuff in between.

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Because those few thousand people a day die from traffic accidents. The people who died on September 11th were attacked by terrorists. Minor difference there...

How many people each day die of vehicle related accidents in Canada?

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i couldnt find recent ones, but im guessing that its not too far off.

In the year of 2001, in all of Canada 2778 people died from vehicle related accidents.

Nothing compared to the 5000 A DAY in America.

I worked it out, and about 7.6 people die a day in Canada from vehicle related accidents.

But be reminded that these stats are 3 years old, ill try find newer ones.

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Accidents are accidents. They are unfortunate events that happen without the intent to cause harm.

Terrorism is done with the intent to kill a few to bully the majority into cow-towing to the terrorists political/social agenda. Example: Spain.

Like Bond said, there is a BIG difference.

As for agendas... it seems like your teacher has one of their own to compare auto accidents with the 9/11 terrorist attack. I wonder if he/she would think the same thing if several planes crashed in Toronto, Montreal and took down the CN Tower killing thousands in the process.

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Im sure he wasnt comparing the terrorist attacks to the vehicle accident deaths. But it got me wondering why more stuff isnt done to stop accidents, i dont know how they would do it though.

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Also news, there's more radioactive buildup in the Columbia river than the entire world's bomb supply. And funny to say, it's natural. Radiation occurs in every stream.

Propaganda ahoy!

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Are they exactly the same?
I am so glad you find this amusing, .I do not understand.
What time is it there?

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I actually think everything that can really be done to prevent auto accidents is being done short of lowering the national speed limit to 25 mph.

Human beings are accident prone, and when you put that tendency behind a 1 ton hunk of metal, sometimes people die.

The real way to help prevent more accidents would be to promote a national form of public transportation, but considering the sheer size of the USA, that would be fiscally impossible.

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Well not EXACTLY the same Camfubot. And it's dinner time over here. I better go eat!

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Well, going to war is deemed fiscally possible by the government. I'm sure that if the US didn't stick their nose into so many other countries' business then there would be more money for stuff 'back home' like a national transit system.

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On the original comparison factor (which I know is not an issue anymore) but I just wanted to say that part of the reason the car accidents go un-noticed is because each accident is small to the country. But something like thousands of people dieing in one incident is big.

And I do think it is crazy that Americans have more traffic accidents but the way our society grew makes it really difficult to do anything different

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Are you entirely sure the 5000 a day number is accurate? It sounds like an urban legend to me, and I've heard teachers spout those off as facts before.


*shrugs and walks away*

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Appx. means approximately, and he showed me a sheet from one of his other students Law 12 classes, ( it was a sheet on auto accidents in north america and what could be dont to prevent them) Urban myth or not, im pretty sure the numbers are up there all right.


Think about it, U.S.A. has hundreds of millions of people, so this is only a fraction of the population each day.

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It's just that its a very large number (no matter what the actual percentage is) and its certainly not unheard of for someone to exaggerate something and call it fact for some purpose and then spread it around.


*shrugs and walks away*