1,428,740 - Number of your life
The hidden price put on your life - Newspaper Edition - Times Online
£1,428,740 - that's how much you are worth.
Or at least that is the amount the Dept of Transport will spend to prevent one death on the road - of course on the sacred cow of the railways then nothing is too much - "John Prescott, the deputy prime minister and in charge of public transport, declared he would spend whatever it took to make rail travel safe: money was “no object”. He was true to his word: the European Rail Traffic Management System, intended to stop trains running red lights, is expected to cost between £3 billion and £6 billion. And it will save, on average, a life every 2½ years.
