Originally Posted by
krismiler
Add in a reduction in other illnesses due to increased hygiene, reduction in traffic accidents and industrial injuries due to the lockdown, and you’re pretty close to normal.
UK road traffic fatalities have declined notably in recent decades, they now average around 5 a day, and it's quite common now to get one or several days without any. This is a 75% reduction in how it was 50 years ago. Aviation of course has sustained an even better reduction. There's a considerable belief in the transport statistics world that the road figures also conceal a notable number of suicides. The railway also gets these, but they are excluded from the rail accident figures, not so with road traffic.