9/11 led to 1,500 deaths on US roads: study

BERLIN - Americans' fear of flying after the September 11, 2001 attacks led to more than 1,500 road fatalities because millions of Americans made long journeys by road instead of by air, German scientists said Tuesday.

The study compared the perceived risk of being killed in a hijacking with the much greater risk of dying in a highway crash.

For months after the suicide-hijacks, which cost about 3,000 lives in all, US road tolls were much higher because of the increase in traffic. The study assessed the effect at 1,595 road deaths in all.

"That's six times as many as the passengers on the four planes who were killed on September 11, 2001," said Professor Gerd
Gigerenzer. The four Boeing airliners had had a total of 265 people on board.

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Aren't statistics great. :eyes:

I always enjoyed pointing out to people who told me how dangerous it was to fly after 9-11, that while there were over 200 people killed riding in airplanes, almost 3000 died while doing nothing more than sitting at their desks. therefore going to work is more than ten times more hazardous than flying across the country.

If you factor in your morning and afternoon commute and all the toxins in your office or other jobsite.