Car, 18 wheeler, motorcycle, drunk driving accident deaths need a sobering reminder via free widgets

Each day Americans hear news reports of fellow citizens killed in accidents involving a car, 18 wheeler, motorcycle or drunk driver. But most such reports concern just one or two accident fatalities at a time, and unless those few victims are known to you personally, their loss is muted and distanced.

But imagine more than 37,000 Americans dying -- or more than half of those who died in the entire Vietnam War? That would be an enormous tragedy -- and it is, since that's the number of Americans projected to die on our streets and highways this year. In other terms, that's more than 3,000 Americans dying each month, or about the same number as those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Any Americans killed for any reason represent a tragedy, and those dying in car, 18 wheeler, motorcycle or drunk driving accidents are no different. Yet some deaths are perceived differently, by virtue of being small and isolated numbers, not a function of a single disastrous calamity. But when these numbers add up to big statistics, their staggering loss is magnified.

Such magnification is what accidentawareness.com is all about. Our web site is designed to help remind Americans daily of the deadly toll taken by reckless driving, and to encourage Americans to be more safe and conscientious.

For that purpose, visitors to this web site are welcome and encouraged to make free widgets downloads for their own sites. Each free widget provides sobering numbers of America's accident fatality tolls, including death statistics for traffic accidents involving a car, 18 wheeler, motorcycle or drunk driving. Also provided are free widgets pertaining to asbestos/mesothelioma deaths.

Every free widget gives a running counter which changes daily, providing the estimated number of the year's accident fatalities as of that date. By this means, visitors to your web site can see for themselves the terrible toll that's being taken in a cumulative sense, rather than via the one or two deaths per accident that are regularly reported by the news media.

Each free widget is easily downloadable by using the instructions on its free widget page. Simply copy the HTML code and place it on your web site's page, and a cautionary daily reminder is yours.

With time, perhaps such reminders will help many Americans exercise the care and restraint which these horrific losses mandate. And though such losses for most of us only involve only "the other guy," that doesn't mean one day they can't claim ourselves or someone we leave. For that reason alone, vigilance is vital, and accidentawareness.com hopes to provide it.