TIL that after 9/11, many Americans opted to drive instead of fly. The shift led to a surge in crash deaths. The number of lives lost (2,000+) is comparable to those killed on 9/11.

Jonawan@lemmy.zip · 3 days ago

TIL that after 9/11, many Americans opted to drive instead of fly. The shift led to a surge in crash deaths. The number of lives lost (2,000+) is comparable to those killed on 9/11.

SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

How many lives were lost because Giuliani and Co lied about the air quality?

MsPenguinette@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

5k-8k

🇨🇦 tunetardis@piefed.ca · 3 days ago

Wow. Just for comparison, this is what Wikipedia has to say about Chernobyl:

long-term death estimates range from 4,000 up to 9,000 (per the 2005 and updated 2006 conclusions of a joint consortium of the United Nations) for the most exposed people of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, to 16,000 cases in total for all those exposed on the entire continent of Europe, with figures as high as 60,000 when including the relatively minor effects around the globe

TIL that after 9/11, many Americans opted to drive instead of fly. The shift led to a surge in crash deaths. The number of lives lost (2,000+) is comparable to those killed on 9/11.

TIL that after 9/11, many Americans opted to drive instead of fly. The shift led to a surge in crash deaths. The number of lives lost (2,000+) is comparable to those killed on 9/11.

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