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- From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX
- Message-ID: <28373@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:25:55 GMT
- References: <1434@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> <1992Nov17.033630.5630@tcsi.com> <22473@drutx.ATT.COM>
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- In article <22473@drutx.ATT.COM> car377@druhi.ATT.COM (RogersC) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.033630.5630@tcsi.com>, markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer) 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. That means that every 5 miles you
- >> travel in your car is as risky as one mile on a motorcycle.
-
- The UK accident stats are these: Deaths per billion km
-
- Motorcycles (powered 2 wheelers) 110
- Cars 4.5
-
- >The figures only apply to YOU if YOU are BOTH the average cager AND
- >the average motorcyclist, and if your exposure to risk factors happens
- >to be the same as the "average" person described by the statistic for
- >the time/place/conditions of the statistic.
-
- Well said. The average (UK) car driver is middle aged, of either sex,
- and has a decade or two of driving experience. The average (UK) biker
- is a young man in his late teens/early twenties with less than 3 years
- experience. The stats are incomparable. It's quite possible that if
- the Gov't were to ban bikes, they'd simply push the lunatics who have
- most of the accidents off bikes and into cars, where they would
- continue to have accidents just as frequently.
- --
- Chris Malcolm cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh +44 (0)31 650 3085
- Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
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