In article ,
John Smith wrote:

The total accident deaths per year in the US is only around 38,000.

Only?

Well, that's on the order of one in 10,000 people per year.
That actually sounds pretty good, considering around 140
people out of 10,000 will die of *some* cause during that
year.

Of course, the context of my comment was that 38,000 isn't much
more than 30,000.

Mike Beede