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- From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: per mile stats (was Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX)
- Message-ID: <28396@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:03:38 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.033630.5630@tcsi.com] <2928@devnull.mpd.tandem.com> <1992Nov18.221634.2505@nimbus.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.221634.2505@nimbus.com> jimiii@nimbus.com (Jim Warford) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- In the UK the fatality rate for cars is 4.5 per billion km, which
- works out at .43 deaths per 60 million miles travelled. Given the
- extra safety of public service vehicles and trucks over cars, and the
- relatively low proportion of more dangerous things than cars, such as
- motorcycles, this suggests that the UK is safer than the US.
-
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