From: [j p t] at [godot.think.com] (James P. Taylor)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.medicine,talk.politics.drugs,misc.misc
Subject: Re: American Medical Association Urges Drivers to be "Dry" on the Fourth of July
Date: 2 Jul 93 17:43:44

In article <[C 9 J 404 Mow] at [freenet.carleton.ca]> [ae 446] at [Freenet.carleton.ca] (Nigel Allen) writes:


	  Total U.S. Motor Vehicle Deaths on Major Holidays 1992

    Holiday      Deaths    Total      Length of holiday    No. of days
		 per day   deaths

    Fourth of     116      350        6 p.m. July 3 to           3
    July                              12 a.m. July 5

    Labor Day     111      446        6 p.m. Sept. 4 to          4
				      12 a.m. Sept. 7

    Memorial      105      422        6 p.m. May 22 to           4
    Day                               12 a.m. May 25

    Christmas      99      391        6 p.m. Dec. 24 to          4
				      12 a.m. Dec. 27

    New Year's    106      106        Complete Day               1
    Eve

      (Statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety
   Administration)

    -30-


Gee.  I remember the statistic that 50,000 people are killed on "our
nation's highways" each year.  50,000/365 = 136.98+  

Must have mis-remembered the total number.  It couldn't be that FEWER
people are killed per day on holiday weekends, could it??? No way.  That
would mean that someone somewhere was not telling us the truth [or at least
not the whole truth.]  Nah.  

Why am I so cynical??  In whose interest could it be to misrepresent the
facts?

oh well

jim