Car vs. Bike crashes and injuries etc.

[Badjelly]

I also have some other random and unconfirmed stats from don't know where stuck in my head like.
1 in 4 will get cancer and
1 in 300 will die during elective surgery.
I agree motorcycling is a dangerous activity and it would be nice to have it put into a real perspective. ..... I doubt however that it will ever happen.

1 in 1 will die(*), so riding a motorbike is really not all that risky.

(*) That's an unconfirmed statistic, of course.

[Ixion]

1 in 1 will die(*), so riding a motorbike is really not all that risky.

(*) That's an unconfirmed statistic, of course.

Not quite . One Cartaphilus spoils the purity of your statistics.

[avgas]

ALL OF THESE BINS (except the two deaths which I cannot comment on as I did not see them) WERE THE MOTORCYCLISTS FAULT I.E. RIDING BEYOND ABILITIES, SPEED, NOT PAYING ATTENTION, INADEQUATE FOLLOWING DISTANCES ETC.

Must have not seen my crash then - it was awesome.
I couldn't have planned a better one....
But the other driver seemed to be able to.

[Badjelly]

Not quite . One Cartaphilus spoils the purity of your statistics.

And a Google search for Cartaphilus leads to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew

There you go: I knew if I followed this thread long enough I would eventually encounter something interesting.

[Ocean1]

Ah, found it.

'Merkin, and old, and possibly irrelevant, but interesting...

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

[Ixion]

Proves what I've always said about WhiteVanMan

[James Deuce]

Not quite . One Cartaphilus spoils the purity of your statistics.

Which reminds me: I haven't read Canticle for Leibowitz for 20 years.

Must get a copy.