It's not so cool that so many road fatalities happen every year. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 369,629 people have died on America's roads between 2001 and 2009.
Mapping experts at ITO World have taken this information, and produced this powerful map using OpenStreetMap. You can zoom in to any particular part of the country or you can simply search for your town. Each dot represents a life.
I used this interactive map earlier to see how many people died in proximity to where I lived, and it's mind-boggling to me how I didn't know these people died just feet from our home, or a nearby store. Click on the pic, to see how many people have lost their lives in your neighborhood, you'd be surprised. Just looking at that huge mass of dots in Houston, Texas is crazy.
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
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1 comment:
Houston's pretty bad, but it doesn't look like they won. That's shocking considering almost ever other day I drive I see another accident, but then again, I don't take the freeway to work.
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