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Does Religion Influence Road Safety?

The conclusion of the study is that being a Catholic country or not seems to be as important as being a wealthy country or not. Being a non-wealthy Catholic country leads to more traffic and hence more motor vehicle accident deaths than being a wealthy Catholic country. Being a wealthy Catholic country, however, does seem to lead to more previous traffic term accidents than being a wealthy non-Catholic country.

That’s from: K. Melinder, “Socio-cultural characteristics of high versus low risk societies regarding road traffic safety,” (2007) Safety Science, 45 (3), pp. 397-414.

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One Response to “Does Religion Influence Road Safety?”

  1. Seth Sanders Says:
    July 10th, 2010 at 5:10 pm

    This recalls an old, and sorta disturbing, line of Justice Scalia: “To the believing Christian, death is no big deal” (on why, according to him, the US was both more believing and put more people to death)

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