A great quote from this interesting article:

One professor, William Lucy at the University of Virginia, has made a cottage industry out of examining the combined death rates for homicide and vehicle crashes. He found that the overall death rate is higher on the suburban fringes of metropolitan areas in Virginia than in the high-crime cities of Richmond and Washington, D.C.

In other words, because people on the edge of suburbs drive a lot — particularly on two-lane roads with curves and fast traffic — they may be putting themselves more at risk.

Yet, providing a safe environment for their kids is precisely one of the reasons I so often hear people give for moving to the edge of the countryside.

Read the whole thing here.