Although ninety-four per cent of battlefield deaths in the Civil War were caused by the rifle, in the Great War it was artillery that inflicted sixty per cent of British fatalities — with an inhumanity that the London Times war correspondent Lt. Col. Charles Repington called the "butchery of the unknown by the unseen".
Beginning in 1997, Sweden's parliament sought to entirely eliminate traffic fatalities with an ambitious program called "Vision Zero".
Estimates for American casualties from 6 13 August vary from 2,000-3,000 fatalities, with an unknown number of wounded.
Overall, Amelia caused 33 fatalities with an estimated $110 million in damages in what then-governor Dolph Briscoe called one of the worst floods in the history of the state.
Although the 31st Infantry Regiment was equipped with ballistic vests in the first mass military deployment of modern personal armor; its 1st and 3rd battalions nevertheless suffered 96 fatalities, with an additional 337 men wounded in the first attack – the heaviest casualties the 31st Infantry Regiment had suffered in a single day during the war.
According to official statistics as of December 12, there were 5982 fatalities, with an additional 1799 missing and 27,022 injured [ National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, 2013].
But it is difficult to imagine either of them debating the best way to reduce highway fatalities with a government minister, as Platinette did one recent night on the "Maurizio Costanzo Show".
"I would hope that anybody looking at that data would say, hey, something is not right here," said Dr. Edward J. Schloss of Cincinnati, "I think if you saw 20 high-voltage fatalities with a pretty clear pattern of insulation abrasion, that should get your attention".
To capture this very large variation in behavior, a gamma function was used with a 95%% credible interval of about 20 million to 2 billion fatalities, with a median of 400 million.3 Figure 2 shows cumulative probability, so the vertical axis values of 0.025 and 0.975 bound the range.
A 300 km portion of the southwest and south-central Java coast was affected by the tsunami, and resulted in around 600 fatalities, with a high concentration in Pangandaran.
