On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> On 08/15/07 05:15:00 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>> Death rates for 1-
>> to-24-year-old males are 60 per 100,000 in cities, versus 80 in rural
>> areas.
>
> That's gotta be mostly driving deaths, don't you think?
Yup, a lot of it. A while back I did a quickie comparison of driving death rates for a few states. New York was relatively low and Alabama, high. And rural Alabama was far higher than urban Alabama. So it's not just young men.