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buymybook
Joined: 21 Feb 2005
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 Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:56 am Post subject: DEADLY STORY WE KEEP MISSING |
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What should American media report? The story of the year.
One good thing about living in Korea. I'm still alive after 3 + years!
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/12/30/200612300029.asp
A good read, makes IRAQ etc... seem small. Maybe if we could see all their dead bodies/amputations/disfigurements in a yearbook and give it to our representatives, manufacturers, industrial unions, truckers, consumers, taxpayers to view.
I say a mass investment in bicycles/paths.
What say you? |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:58 am Post subject: |
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| Indeed. i'm always extra cautious and careful on the roads here.. |
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Roch
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Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:19 am Post subject: Re: DEADLY STORY WE KEEP MISSING |
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[quote="buymybook"]What should American media report? The story of the year.
One good thing about living in Korea. I'm still alive after 3 + years!
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/12/30/200612300029.asp
A good read, makes IRAQ etc... seem small. Maybe if we could see all their dead bodies/amputations/disfigurements in a yearbook and give it to our representatives, manufacturers, industrial unions, truckers, consumers, taxpayers to view.
I say a mass investment in bicycles/paths.
What say you?[/quote
Foreigners sork, eh, that is what Rochie has to say about, largely, uncontrolled Asians, Latins, and Blacks driving amok in Canada, eh. |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:14 am Post subject: |
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| No mention of how Korean has an automobile-caused death-rate twice that of the US. Nice reporting. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Terrible death-toll and the major contributer to smog, noise pollution and global warming.......
.......the car has a lot to answer for.
Why we aren't all driving electric cars by now is a world-wide scandal. Check out, "Who Killed the Electric Car". I know electric cars won't affect traffic accidents much but doesn't anyone else feel that cars are just becoming more trouble than they are worth? |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah that story paints a clear picture of how this issue is simply swept under the rug. I liked how he said each accident is reported as though it were a singular case that will not reoccur. That's a good point.
But what exactly can be done? Well, heavy research would be required to assess the root cause of most wrecks. Just off the bat, my guess would be people being in too much of a hurry as well as people not paying attention.
On a side note, look at this comparison the writer made:
If you laid out side by side 8-by-10 photos of all those killed in crashes this year, the pictures would stretch more than five miles.
I really hate when people try to illustrate how big something is by turning it into a line. It is not helpful in the slightest bit. How is it easier for me to conceptualize five miles worth of 8x10 photographs than just the number 44,000?
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| No mention of how Korean has an automobile-caused death-rate twice that of the US. Nice reporting. |
The story was not written by or for the Korea Herald. It's just a wire story. Look at the bottom:
Peter J. Woolley is a professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University and executive director of PublicMind, a public opinion research group there. - Ed.
(Washington Post Service) |
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otis
Joined: 02 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah that story paints a clear picture of how this issue is simply swept under the rug. I liked how he said each accident is reported as though it were a singular case that will not reoccur. That's a good point.
But what exactly can be done? Well, heavy research would be required to assess the root cause of most wrecks. Just off the bat, my guess would be people being in too much of a hurry as well as people not paying attention.
On a side note, look at this comparison the writer made:
If you laid out side by side 8-by-10 photos of all those killed in crashes this year, the pictures would stretch more than five miles.
I think I might know you.
Do you smoke Camel?
I really hate when people try to illustrate how big something is by turning it into a line. It is not helpful in the slightest bit. How is it easier for me to conceptualize five miles worth of 8x10 photographs than just the number 44,000?
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| No mention of how Korean has an automobile-caused death-rate twice that of the US. Nice reporting. |
The story was not written by or for the Korea Herald. It's just a wire story. Look at the bottom:
Peter J. Woolley is a professor of political science at Fairleigh *beep* University and executive director of PublicMind, a public opinion research group there. - Ed.
(Washington Post Service) |
I think I know you.
Do you smoke Camel? |
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tsgarp
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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While the article makes a great point in that road safety needs to be taken seriously, spurious comparisons like this:
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| At the 2006 casualty rate of 800 soldiers per year, the United States would have to be in Iraq for more than 50 years to equal just one year of automobile deaths back home. |
do nothing but play to sensationalism. How many millions of Americans are on the roads each day, drivers, passengers, pedestrians, bikers, etc? Out of a population of 300,000,000 it would be safe to say nearly all of them minus the incarcerated, debilitated (and even many of them are occassionally on the road), and a few others like the majority infants and extremely old seniors. Going by this it's clearly more dangerous to be in Iraq. Numbers can be spun any way but the truth is simple. I'd rather drive I95 in the US than any road in Iraq. |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| JeJuJitsu wrote: |
| No mention of how Korean has an automobile-caused death-rate twice that of the US. Nice reporting. |
The story was not written by or for the Korea Herald. It's just a wire story. Look at the bottom:
Peter J. Woolley is a professor of political science at Fairleigh *beep* University and executive director of PublicMind, a public opinion research group there. - Ed.
(Washington Post Service) |
I know. What's it doing printing a wire story unless it is tied to Korea? |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| As I recall most traffic deaths in Korea are of pedestrians. Given the unimportance with which many drivers regard crosswalks and the (to me) inexplicable indifference of pedestrians to cars and buses they can clearly hear bearing down on them from behind, it's sadly unsurprising. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| As I recall most traffic deaths in Korea are of pedestrians. Given the unimportance with which many drivers regard crosswalks and the (to me) inexplicable indifference of pedestrians to cars and buses they can clearly hear bearing down on them from behind, it's sadly unsurprising. |
Nah, it's the fault of those a-holes that run red lights, and there are plenty of them. Just today, I was taking a left turn (green arrow pointing to the left) when some jerk in a Rodius, cell-phone in hand, came zooming throught the red light. Had I not hit the breaks and honked, he would hit my car. The guy just stopped and looked at me, totally oblivious to the fact that he was doing anything wrong. This has happened to me too many times to count. Last time it happened to my wife, the other driver didn't stop and took out her car and a couple of others. |
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