-Eric
>In a message dated 3/1/99 5:56:51 PM Central Standard Time,
>retroman@together.net writes:
>
>> There are still around 30,000 people killed on the
>> roads in the US each year.
>
>My recollection is different. Unfortunately I have no specific citations
but
>in an issue of "Truckers News" some months ago it was reported that for the
>first time in a loooooong time there were less than 50,000 people killed on
>the hiways for that year...
>
>Not a whole lot less...but less.
>
>I'm on the road normally about eight hours a day...EVERY day. I'm amazed
that
>there are so few wrecks. People in general are idiots. (when it comes to
>their driving anyway)
>
>EvMick
>Effingham Illinois.
>