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- From: jimiii@nimbus.com (Jim Warford)
- Subject: Re: per mile stats (was Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.221634.2505@nimbus.com>
- Reply-To: jimiii@nimbus.com (Jim Warford)
- Organization: Nimbus Technology, Santa Clara, CA USA
- References: <1eb2dcINN8bb@sixgun.East.Sun.COM]<1992Nov17.033630.5630@tcsi.com] <2928@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:16:34 GMT
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- In article <2928@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> joe@mpd.tandem.com writes:
- >]]"Say on a per mile basis someone is five times (I don't know the actual
- >]]figure and would appreciate it if anyone knows) as likely to be killed
- >]]on a motorcycle than in a car.
- >
- >what is the fatality per mile figure for both mc's and cars?
- >
-
- Don't know about cars or mc's breakdown but in the USA it is 1.3 fatalities
- per 60 million miles driven. In Latvia it is 25 per 60 million miles. Latvia
- is the most dangerous place to drive and the US is tied with the Netherlands
- as the safest.
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