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From: Datesfat Chicks on 3 Nov 2009 21:19 "Sean_Q_" <no.spam(a)no.spam> wrote in message news:hcql2i$1m6$1(a)aioe.org... > Datesfat Chicks wrote: > >> Dying from a car accident: also about 1 in 5,000. > > Shee-it, are cages that risky? What about bikes? Am I playing > against House odds every time I wheel my steed onto the street? > > Please say it ain't so. I gotta go shopping tonight. I don't remember where I read that statistic, but a little rough math would probably satisfy you that it is approximately right. There are maybe 300,000,000 people in this country, and let's assume that 200,000,000 of them have a driver's license. I think nationally there are on the order of 30,000 motor vehicle deaths a year. Dividing the former by the latter says that 1 in every 6,667 of them is toast in a car crash. Again, don't remember where I read the stat, but it seems approximately right. This may be interesting, too: http://reason.com/archives/2006/08/11/dont-be-terrorized I think it gets closer to 1 in 5,000 if you just consider licensed drivers. Datesfat
From: Sean_Q_ on 3 Nov 2009 22:06 Datesfat Chicks wrote: > This truly is the newsgroup of the mentally ill. And it took you HOW MANY MONTHS to figure that out? SQ - <ROTFL>
From: S'mee on 3 Nov 2009 22:54 On Nov 3, 8:06 pm, Sean_Q_ <no.s...(a)no.spam> wrote: > Datesfat Chicks wrote: > > This truly is the newsgroup of the mentally ill. > > And it took you HOW MANY MONTHS to figure that out? > > SQ - <ROTFL> He's a bit sicker than I but not on par with HHH. But that's just an opinion and worth every penny you paid...at least I don't post links like Thumper.
From: The Older Gentleman on 4 Nov 2009 02:18 Datesfat Chicks <datesfat.chicks(a)gmail.com> wrote: > If you step on a domestic airliner, your odds of dying are about 1 in 10 > million. > > Dying of influenza in a given year: about 1 in 5,000. > > Dying from a car accident: also about 1 in 5,000. I'd be interested in the source of these stats, because with the USA's population of about 300 million, that means 60,000 people die of the flu every year and I think such an epidemic would have come to the notice of the authorities, don't you? Same goes for road deaths, too, actually. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER (currently Beaving) Damn, back to five bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: Mark Olson on 4 Nov 2009 06:50
The Older Gentleman wrote: > Datesfat Chicks <datesfat.chicks(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> If you step on a domestic airliner, your odds of dying are about 1 in 10 >> million. >> >> Dying of influenza in a given year: about 1 in 5,000. >> >> Dying from a car accident: also about 1 in 5,000. > > I'd be interested in the source of these stats, because with the USA's > population of about 300 million, that means 60,000 people die of the flu > every year and I think such an epidemic would have come to the notice of > the authorities, don't you? > > Same goes for road deaths, too, actually. Road deaths was about 1 in 7 000 in 2002. http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx Total deaths/year = about 43 000 Population of USA = about 300 x 10^6 Interesting figures re: motorcycle deaths, increasing significantly despite overall traffic accident deaths going down. |