Originally Posted by
UndertheWire
Getting to the US, I had a conversation with my son, who had just spent the summer in the US, aged 20. Like any nervous mother, I had worried about him moving to a more dangerous country and had thought at least the chance of being killed on the road had to be lower in less densely populated country. But no, road deaths were about three times higher. Why? My son's explanation was that it was down to DUI. That when he and his friends go out in the UK, they are close enough to home that they can walk or take a taxi after a night out, but in the US, people travel further and tend not to use public transport, which means they are more likely to drive home after a night out.