Its not safe to drive

[TwoSeven]

Was watchin CNN the other morning and they said that 1.3 billion people flew on comercial airlines last year and only 430 odd people died - the lowest since 1945 (go figure - 1945 was a safe year).

Anyhow, that turns out to be something like 1 in 10 million for your chances of being turned into some kind of fertilizer - or something like that.

What was interesting was the total road deaths in NZ was abou 430 odd as well (hence I noticed the article coz the number rang a bell).

But the popn. of Nz is only 3.99mil so thats about 1 in 9,000.

That suggests to me that if you want to travel anywhere in New Zealand .... FLY with a commercial airline :apint:

[Aitch]

don't ask Paul Holmes to drive the plane......

[MSTRS]

If I put wings on the Gixxer & charge myself to fly it, would that improve my chances?

[pete376403]

NZ still looks pretty good compared to mainland China - in a good year (2003)they have something like 286 killed and 1354 injuredin car accidents per DAY. 2003 was considered good due to a 13% reduction in accidents, mainly due to the SARS epidemic. And, yes there are a lot of Chinese but car ownership there is not very high per capita.

[TwoSeven]

Yes, but China has 1.3 billion people, - just dont have enough planes to fly, thats why they are all in cars :)

According to the world fact book, China has a death rate of 6.92/1000 people and we (NZ) have a rate of 7.54/1000 people.

[inlinefour]

Can't remeber who had it on their posts but I like it. "I'm not going to tiptoe through life just to safely turn up at the grave, but rather skid sideways at the last minite yelling holly shit, what a ride"! (something like that). :niceone:

[Stevo]

Can't remeber who had it on their posts but I like it. "I'm not going to tiptoe through life just to safely turn up at the grave, but rather skid sideways at the last minite yelling holly shit, what a ride"! (something like that). :niceone:
Better still was the one ummm "I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like the occupants of his car"

[inlinefour]

Better still was the one ummm "I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like the occupants of his car"

Yea, lets ban cars...

[Lou Girardin]

Yes, but China has 1.3 billion people, - just dont have enough planes to fly, thats why they are all in cars :)

According to the world fact book, China has a death rate of 6.92/1000 people and we (NZ) have a rate of 7.54/1000 people.

Check the death rate per 10,000 vehicles. That'll be more relevant to a country with a huge population, most of whom don't have cars.

[TwoSeven]

its called euthanasia, the chinese goverment tampers with the breaks and shit

I didnt know the euthinasia were alloud to drive ?

[Lou Girardin]

I didnt know the euthinasia were alloud to drive ?

They come here to do it.