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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: <28512@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 00:01:52 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.221634.2505@nimbus.com> <28396@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov19.234010.2718@nimbus.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.234010.2718@nimbus.com> jimiii@nimbus.com (Jim Warford) writes:
- >In article <28396@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) 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.
-
- |> ... this suggests that the UK is safer than the US.
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- | I got my figures straight out of Wednesdays newspaper.
- |They quote their source as a report by the "International Road Federation"
- |Where did you get your statistic from?
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- The UK Govt statistics in the annual publication "Social Trends",
- available from UK HMSO (Govt publication) bookshops. This figure has
- only changed a little (getting a little worse) in the last several
- years.
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