Matt Yglesias notes that we spend vastly more money on Homeland Security to prevent another 9/11, which killed 3,000 people, than we do to reduce traffic fatalities which kill more than 10 times as many people every single year. And 1/3 of highway deaths involve speeding, which is eminently preventable.
Via Greater Greater Washington
https://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/06/death-by-car-crash/
https://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=6601oldId.2010072007451020
Biking in Baltimore