&gt; The same number of people died in car accidents during September 2001 as they did in terrorist attacks.<p>I was interested if this is true, and on the face of it it is. 2996 people died in 9&#x2F;11, in 2001 (the entire year) 37,795 people died in car accidents (source: NHTSA), or an average of 3149&#x2F;deaths per month.<p>Injuries are also higher from accidents than 9&#x2F;11 for the month of Sept. 2001.