Talk:Transportation safety in the United States

message: The original for "Transportation safety" is a short article focused on the United States and providing detail only for automobile accident rates. It would be helpful to expand the article with historical data on other modes of transportation and with information for other countries.
Craig Bolon 22:15, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Linking to here from another article in the hopes of there soon being statistics on rail safety in terms of passenger-miles travelled. -- Beland 16:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Stats should also be reconciled with air safety. -- Beland 16:42, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rail safety 

message: with a large connotation of danger surrounding public transportation, it would be nice to crunch the numbers of the source I added to see how they really compare at least according to the study. Just from a five minute look I deduce that counting only cars and light trucks the number is about 300 times higher than the number of deaths on subways and light rail. I did not include the bus deaths because they also include school buses and intercity buses although I'm quite certain most of the deaths are on public buses public transport that is. I'm not sure how much that would skew the numbers anyways since the majority of public transit buses in many cities across the country, but obviously would tip the scales a little bit in the favor of the private automobile. the question is are there three hundred times as many car trips per day month year as subway and light rail trips? http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_02_04.html
B137 (talk) 05:28, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Private motor car vs public transport per capita

message: It looks like Road Traffic safety in the United States might be an article independent of Transportation safety in the United States.
So, I wonder if it possible to create such an Road traffic safety in the United States article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.193.104.227 (talk) 08:36, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: IMO, this article in its current state is just a disaster.  OTOH, the article we should have "Road Traffic safety in the United States" doesn't exist.  I suggest renaming the existing article as indicated, consisting of the existing content of the "Road safety" section.  Then we don't find ourselves tangled up in the question of how to compare the safety of air travel vs. road travel, allowing the article to focus on a more narrow range of modes of transportation.  Fabrickator (talk) 23:28, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Road Traffic safety in the United States vs Transportation safety in the United States 

message: Just wondering wht NTSB source is named oecd in
 NTSB <ref name="oecd">  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.193.104.162 (talk) 07:17, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  NTSB named oecd ? 

message: The article writes:
but when the federal government provides some guidances for safety measure which would reduce death by 37%, such as alcohol in 1998 or motorcycle helmet in 1967, around ten years are necessary for such measures be implemented by a number of local governments.
This is an incorrect reading of the citation — the cited paper writes:
The U.S. government in 1998 imposed financial penalties on states that did not have a prohibition on open containers that met federal standards. As of February 2007, only 39 (out of 50) states and the District of Columbia had such laws. Yet drunk driving was responsible for between 32 and 37% of motor vehicle fatalities in the U.S. in 2008.
The fact that drunk driving caused perhaps up to 37% of motor vehicle fatalities does not imply that prohibiting open containers will eliminate all of those deaths.
I agree with the sentiment of this sentence, but it's factually incorrect as written.
Wesleyac (talk) 20:00, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  37% figure 

message: In this diff, the titles which specify "archived copy" are actually linked to live urls.  I realize this is because "url-status=live", but the result is a little bit strange.  OTOH, it seems contrary to IABot documentation that it even operates on live links.  What am I fundamentally missing here? Fabrickator (talk) 05:37, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  confused about "archived copy" titles 

message: " fatalities increased to nearly 38,680 due to fewer people driving on the road (13% less distance) and more risky behavior" Why would fewer people driving (actually fewer miles traveled, which is not the same) INcrease fatalities?  On the surface of it, I would think we would expect a DEcrease (fewer miles-->less opportunity for accidents-->fewer accidents--> fewer deaths).  Is the sense behind the statement that with less mileage there is more behavior that is risky?  What would support this idea? 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:BCDB:9B54:6232:A0C0 (talk) 14:39, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It specifically says it is "due to" that means "causing", that's the answer to your question. JesseRafe (talk) 15:04, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does this make sense? 

message: In the section "Train safety compared to other nations by traveled distance," the word 'intrus' is used.  Searching various online dictionaries, I could not find this word in English. What does it mean? 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:BCDB:9B54:6232:A0C0 (talk) 14:59, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intrus 

message: There should be some supporting evidence for the highways being safer than non-highway road claim... 104.172.234.209 (talk) 04:33, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No citation for the statement that driving on highways is safer