I had to re-post these three paragraphs from a Forbes article I quoted in a recent post. I love what is said, I too have said this.
Would you fly if every single day a plane carrying 110 people crashed?
No way.
We need to realize the global impact of car crashes.
The simple fact is, getting behind the wheel of a car is the riskiest thing most people do every day, says Russ Rader, a spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
But since fatal crashes happen in “ones and twos” scattered across the country, the general public doesn’t realize their collective toll–about 110 people per day, nationwide.
“If a hundred-seat airplane were crashing every day in the U.S., the air transportation system would be shut down with demands for the government to do something,” Rader says. “But that doesn’t happen with auto crashes.” (Forbes)