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To save lives, spend money in hospitals, not on road safety

Idris Francis, Petersfield, Hants GU32
02 September 2016
 

Professor Allsop’s chart of “risk of death per hour” (ibid), though a useful comparison for deciding whether to climb a mountain, fly a light aeroplane, base jump, or swim the Channel, is not appropriate for deciding how best to spend public money to save lives, where the objective must be to prevent the maximum number of deaths, however caused, for any given expenditure. Equally, whether the risk is high for short periods or low for longer periods is...

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