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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
In the U.S. in 2009 there were 1.13 fatalities per 100,000,000 vehicle miles travelled, or 1 fatality per 88,500,000 miles.
That would be 3,150 years of driving before the axe falls.
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The problems with statistics is you always need people to become statistics.
A community of 3150 Frank Lees would see a fatal accident every year.
That sounds a lot less remote, doesn't it ?
Those safety improvements don't just reduce the number of fatal accidents, they also reduce the severity of all accidents, preventing accidents from becoming fatal ones.
And that's why Frank can nowadays claim his 3150 or 6300 years before the axe falls for him.