This is sad, but kind of strange with all the fear and media publicity of an airplane crash. For example, 1.2million people lost their life in road traffic in 2010 alone... We rarely read or fear about this fact.
That's actually wrong by an order of magnitude, but that's not the point. The fact that individual road accidents claiming a few victims are so common is exactly why it's not news.
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This is sad, but kind of strange with all the fear and media publicity of an airplane crash. For example, 1.2million people lost their life in road traffic in 2010 alone... We rarely read or fear about this fact.
Yeah. Every day, more than ten times as many people die in traffic accidents than in this single plane crash.
I'm sure we would read about a single road accident claiming a few hundred lives as well.
Each day about ~100.000 people lose their life in road accidents...
That's actually wrong by an order of magnitude, but that's not the point. The fact that individual road accidents claiming a few victims are so common is exactly why it's not news.