Do We Tolerate Too Many Traffic Deaths?

"While traffic-related deaths in the United States have decreased in recent years — even though more people are on the road driving more miles — the number still hovers around 37,000 fatalities a year.

Should the nation work harder to reduce that number? What’s the one thing that could be done to reduce highway deaths? "

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/do-we-tolerate-too-many-traffic-deaths/

"I think we need to stop using the word 'accident' unless it was really something not reasonably avoidable. Someone sending a text and plowing into someone at a stoplight isn't an accident, and to call it that gives the connotation that "oh well, it was just an accident, nothing we could do about it"."

From the comments in http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/06/the_real_risk_t.html