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03/07/2008: "Incompetence costs you: the cost of bad driving"
Traffic crashes cost American motorists more than $160 billion a year while inflicting a staggering per-person toll on small cities such as Little Rock, Arkansas, Columbia, South Carolina, and Pensacola, Florida,
according to a AAA research report.
Maryland-based Cambridge Systematics Inc., which conducted the research for the automobile association, found that crashes cost U.S. motorists $164.2 billion a year, or about $1,051 per person. That's more than double the $67.6 billion in annual costs from congestion, which works out to about $430 per person.
[ Not everyone should drive, obviously. ]
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/05/crashes.costs.ap/index.html