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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Using numbers from the post above, in 1960 there were 50 fatalities per billion miles driven. Assuming I might have driven 10,000 miles that year (if I'd had a license back then), that makes my odds of dying in auto crash about 1 in 2000, vs about 1 in 6500 today. Either way, hardly a deathtrap.
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It's not really about the odds you might get killed in a car crash.
It's all about your odds surviving a car crash whenever you get involved in one.
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The Odds of Dying | LiveScience which gives the odds of dying from heart disease as 1 in 5, from cancer as 1 in 7,
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That's because we grow ever older - only to die from conditions that take longer to develop.
We all die, eventually. No way around that.
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but from motor vehicle accidents as 1 in 100.
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Over here, suicide and traffic accidents are the main causes of death among young people.
Reduce these, and you'll get more people dying of longer-term diseases later on in life.
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Instead, toss the chips & dip, quit smoking, and get up off the couch and get some exercise :-)
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Smoking keeps away Parkinson's, while getting some exercise might actually kill you because of a heart condition
