[lbo-talk] suburbia kills

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Aug 15 15:17:26 PDT 2007


Michael Smith wrote:
>
> On 08/15/07 05:40:12 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > So it's not just young men.
>
> Not entirely, no, but they're a lot worse -- as insurance premiums
> show. Also of course whenever one of these young fellas gets himself
> and a carful of his dawgs killed, it has a bigger impact on the
> premature-death stats precisely because they're young. Double whammy,
> so to speak.

My impression is that teen auto deaths are more apt to be multiple (full car load) than in the case of drivers 25 and older. I don't know whether the data could be mined to confirm or negate that.

Carrol



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