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veeeffarr
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PostPosted: 16:22 - 29 Mar 2006    Post subject: Odds of dying... Reply with quote
Quite interesting... Have a looksie Smile

https://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm

It's USA based, so results are probably different for the UK.
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PostPosted: 16:35 - 29 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Couldn't be bothered to read it all, but quite interesting. I think it will be different from the UK too. Also, is it legitimate? Anyway, is 'looksie' another one of these 'clicky' and 'linky' type of words?
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PostPosted: 16:48 - 29 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Evans wrote:
Couldn't be bothered to read it all, but quite interesting. I think it will be different from the UK too. Also, is it legitimate? Anyway, is 'looksie' another one of these 'clicky' and 'linky' type of words?


Don't know, didn't know I typed it to be honest Smile
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PostPosted: 18:17 - 29 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh aye, course you didn't *wink wink, nudge nudge*. I'm surprised by some of them. I thought that this would have been much much more:

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PostPosted: 19:14 - 29 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here's a pretty horrifying one:

Motorcycle deaths in a year: 3,215

Car, van, etc deaths in a year: 21,000 or so.

If motorcycles make up 1% of the vehicles, as they purportedly do, if we were all riding motorcycles that's 321,500 deaths a year compared to the 21,000 if we all drove cars.
So the odds of dying on a motorcycle are about 15 times higher than the odds of dying in a car.

Shocked Ouch.
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PostPosted: 20:10 - 29 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rookie wrote:
321,500 deaths a year compared to the 21,000 if we all drove cars.
So the odds of dying on a motorcycle are about 15 times higher than the odds of dying in a car.

Shocked Ouch.


On GR2 it says something like 16times. Watching that was easier then doing the maths Razz

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PostPosted: 23:44 - 29 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rookie wrote:
Here's a pretty horrifying one:

Motorcycle deaths in a year: 3,215

Car, van, etc deaths in a year: 21,000 or so.

If motorcycles make up 1% of the vehicles, as they purportedly do, if we were all riding motorcycles that's 321,500 deaths a year compared to the 21,000 if we all drove cars.
So the odds of dying on a motorcycle are about 15 times higher than the odds of dying in a car.

Shocked Ouch.


Ahem, if you read it tho, it shows we are nearly 5 times LESS likely to die (per year) then car occupants, and 2 times less likely to die then pedestrians.

Bless em. Remember its odds, not deaths we are looking at.
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PostPosted: 23:50 - 29 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Meh,

I don't believe in odds anyway.

You can't use maths to factor in rider skill and attitude.
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PostPosted: 00:00 - 30 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Odds of dying.......almost certain I would say
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PostPosted: 00:01 - 30 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Actually... Cool (look smart hahah) From the back of 'The Police Rider's Handbook To Better Motorcycling' it states "Motorcyclists are on average 35 times more at risk of death or serious injury than car drivers."

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PostPosted: 00:03 - 30 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
tokarev wrote:
death or serious injury than car drivers."


Aka any trip involving hospital.

So anytime you smack your head they send you to hospital.

So basically anytime someone comes off its counted into that.

Whereas how many serious car crashes do people walk away from Confused
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PostPosted: 00:12 - 30 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
You have a point, but I suppose it depends on the authors and our definition of 'serious injury'
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PostPosted: 22:51 - 01 Apr 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rookie wrote:
Here's a pretty horrifying one:

Motorcycle deaths in a year: 3,215

Car, van, etc deaths in a year: 21,000 or so.

If motorcycles make up 1% of the vehicles, as they purportedly do, if we were all riding motorcycles that's 321,500 deaths a year compared to the 21,000 if we all drove cars.
So the odds of dying on a motorcycle are about 15 times higher than the odds of dying in a car.

Shocked Ouch.


great post proving that the site is incorrect. stats incorrectly used. to work it out properly they need to know how many deaths per user.
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