(Nor was there any spillover of extra deaths on alternative routes).
Gigerenzer ascribed the extra deaths to people's poor understanding of danger.
With an epidemic the size of AIDS, that means a lot of extra deaths.
Federal regulators say that the designs of sport utilities and pickups are causing 2,000 extra deaths a year.
These incidents go largely un-noticed but they have a health impact; 10 days of high particle pollution in spring 2014 caused an estimated 600 extra deaths.
According to the World Health Organisation, climate change is due to cause an additional 250,000 extra deaths a year between 2030 and 2050.
This could mean 700 extra deaths in car crashes over 40 years, while saving just 83 deaths through trains going through red lights.
Last summer, he said the failure to provide a full seven-day service was responsible for about 6,000 extra deaths a year in England.
In other words, there were 5.3 versus 3.4 deaths per 10,000 women per year — 1.9 extra deaths in hormone users.
For every 10,000 women in their 70s, using estrogen would cause 16 extra heart attacks, 19 extra deaths and 48 serious adverse events.
A12 Speed Limits Linked to Deaths Increased Interstate Highway speed limits led to nearly 1,900 extra deaths in 22 states from 1996 to 1999, a report from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says.
