{"id":1480,"date":"2013-01-16T22:31:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T22:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2013-01-16T22:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T22:31:30","slug":"car-pollution-noise-and-accidents-cost-every-eu-citizen-600-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/car-pollution-noise-and-accidents-cost-every-eu-citizen-600-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Car pollution, noise and accidents &#8216;cost every EU citizen \u00a3600 a year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">Original article by Peter Walker at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/dec\/25\/car-pollution-noise-accidents-eu\">The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2012\/12\/20\/1356030182594\/Cars-in-traffic-010.jpg\" alt=\"Cars in traffic\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The perennial complaint from drivers that they are excessively taxed has been challenged by a study which concludes that road accidents, <a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Pollution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/pollution\">pollution<\/a> and noise connected to cars costs every EU citizen more than \u00a3600 a year.The <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greens-efa.eu\/the-true-costs-of-automobility-8787.html\">report by transport academics at the Dresden Technical University in Germany<\/a> calculated that even with drivers&#8217; insurance contributions discounted these factors amounted to an annual total of \u20ac373bn (\u00a3303bn) across the 27 EU member states, or around 3% of the bloc&#8217;s entire yearly GDP. This breaks down as \u20ac750 per man, woman and child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/dec\/25\/car-pollution-noise-accidents-eu\">Continued at original site<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article by Peter Walker at The Guardian. The perennial complaint from drivers that they are excessively taxed has been challenged by a study which concludes that road accidents, pollution and noise connected to cars costs every EU citizen more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/car-pollution-noise-and-accidents-cost-every-eu-citizen-600-a-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6846,6851,6844,73,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-ownership","category-economics","category-energy","category-international","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}