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.
·1 year ago
"Hell yeah they do! Why do you think I have this 250 pound "brush guard" and my bumper raised to eye level for driving around in my suburb?"