Source of the chart - Plane vs. car safety: America has the world’s safest air travel but is so bad at car safety - Vox
Three tweet thread…
A key reason is Americans love BIG HEAVY vehicles. “The average weight of a new vehicle sold in the United States last year was a whopping 4,329 pounds.” You get hit by one of these monsters as a pedestrian, cyclist, you die.
20 points
The limits are pretty similar
As a Canadian living in America, I definitely feel like Americans are just way more aggressive and individualist in general which carries over to their driving
27 points
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