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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
I thought the odds of dying in a motor vehicle accident were more like 1:1,000,000. (warning: not gonna go look it up again)
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Depends on how you want to calculate the odds.
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2000 transportation fatalities: 41,945
2000 population: 281,421,906
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So during the year 2000, 1 in every 6,709 Americans died in a motor accident.
During 2009, 1 in every 11,300 Belgians died in a traffic accident.
Those are the individual odds / year.