What a state to be in?

 [In sff.net, the conversation got around to how crappy drivers in Washington, D.C. are . . . . ]



Well, there are lies, damned lies, and mathematics. If you look at

http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departme...

you’ll see that the death rate in Washington for traffic accidents, year by year, is consistently about half that of the average for the rest of the country.

But then you think about one-half em-vee-squared and consider how few of the accidents in D.C. occur at 70 mph or more . . .

(The death rate in Wyoming, z.B., runs more than double the national average.)

Joe