Traffic fatalities

I'd appreciate some help on this from those in the Cedar Rapids area:  How many deaths are there on the roads of Linn county per month?

I was shocked to learn that there have been 54 deaths on the roads in the first 8 months of 2011 in Al Ain.  Al Ain has twice the population but given the large laborer class I'd be willing to bet the number of cars on the road is about the same as Linn county.  

Fifty-four deaths is both shocking and reassuring.  I've said before that if I die in this country it will have nothing nothing to do with terrorism, it will be under the wheels of a LandCruiser.  It's reassuring in the sense that I think, "Why am I worried about flying in Nepal when I drive in the Emirates?"