Found an interesting...

statistic from March of 1941, especially when compared to American traffic deaths in the same time-frame.

In January, 1,502 Britons had been killed by bombs* ; in December, 3,793; in November, 4,588; in October, 6,334; in September, 6,954. But the curve of losses at sea—of supplies to keep millions alive—looked as if it were on the way up after its wintry low. And in any case, the casualty lull was only relative. Said the magazine Flight: "The Germans have brought the world to a pretty pass when we congratulate ourselves because only 1,500 people were killed in a month."

* Almost twice as many are killed in automobile accidents in the U. S. each month.

See:

World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: New Phase of Fury - TIME

 

Carefull Clint,

You post those numbers and the liberals might demand we "withdraw" or "drawdown" from our cars!

 

Those deaths in auto accident numbers were from 1940 and '41, the total numbers are higher these days, but not by much really. Cars are safer on the whole and even though more passenger miles are driven each year as compared to the forties, we still have too many accidents on our roadways. And alcohol related accidents are down, as are speed related in the past two decades, but more people in more cars on the same number of roads offset the gains.