Argentina: 3.71 % of its population affected by traffic accidents every 10 years

I am shocked. I just read a study saying that in Argentina, during 2005, 14,526 people died and more than 120,000 were injured just by traffic accidents. That is: 39 deaths and 328 injured per day. This sickening high number puts Argentina as the country with by far the most number of traffic accidents. Between January and March of 2006, 1,777 people died as a result of a traffic accident.

Consider that Argentina has a population of 36,260,130. This means that 0.37 % of our population gets affected (either killed or injured) by a traffic accident, per year. After 10 years, 3.71 % of the population would be affected. Take that number, and apply it to a country like the US, with a population of 295,734,134 people, and you would get: 1,097,181 affected per year, and 10,971,811 affected after 10 years. Yes, the numbers are correct. Over one million people per year, and over ten million people every 10 years. Iraq’s war and the World Trade Center are starting to seem acceptable casualties, right?

I sincerely hope that argentinians realize that we can no longer continue like this. Because if we do, we just might not have anything to continue.