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by gweinberg 4420 days ago
I don't think you want to see per capita, you want to see per driver-mile.
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> I don't think you want to see per capita, you want to see per driver-mile.

Not necessarily. Having e.g. a functional mass transit system that allows people to drive less is a perfectly valid way to reduce traffic fatalities.

It looks like that's lower in Sweden, too, but the comments give more of a suggestion of that, not a direct statement.