Did you know..........

[The Dice Man]

......that 44,000 Americans die every year in car crashes? That's around 123 people a day.

And worldwide car crashes cause around 1.2 million deaths a year, this doesnt take into account other injuries, maimings, or people disabled by car crashes.

It is the second highest cause of death globally among people aged 5-29, and the third highest cause of death for people aged 30-44 years.

More Americans have died in car crashes in the 20th century, than the amount who died in wars and armed conflicts.

Around 1,600 die each year on Australian roads.

Authorities and experts expect these tolls to increase by 80% by the year 2020.


Be careful in your cars people.

 

[guess_who]

Yes makes for interesting reading! All statistics envolving deaths usually are quite scary!

You can't exactly scare Aussies by showing american stats, nor can you compare them. Look at the population difference, work out the percentige to get a true indication of how we compare against the yanks. Not that your post is about comparing the two, would be interesting but I can't be bothered to work it out.

 

[Vandal]

I dont even think its law for americans to wear seatbelts...

 

[The Dice Man]

OK taking the US's population at 295,734,134 and dividing it by the 44,000 road deaths each year we are left with 1 in 6,721 people die in a car crash.

Ive taken Aus population at 20,090,437 and divided by 1,600 and we are left with 1 in 12,556.

Doesnt sound that high then.. perhaps Ive stuffed something up.

 

[Casey]

OK taking the US's population at 295,734,134 and dividing it by the 44,000 road deaths each year we are left with 1 in 6,721 people die in a car crash.

wouldnt you have to devide that by 70-75 because thats each year and we live for many years this would meant that one in 96 people die in car crases..... that could be way wrong but oh well thats how i read it

 

[The Dice Man]

wouldnt you have to devide that by 70-75 because thats each year and we live for many years this would meant that one in 96 people die in car crases..... that could be way wrong but oh well thats how i read it

Well to be honest your 96 seems closer than my 1 in 6,700. I just took the current population and divided by the yearly total who die in cars for a 1 year average.

I guess if you extend that over a lifetime it would decrease greatly. My figure is the odds of getting killed this year in an accident, your odds are of getting killed in a lifetime by a car accident I guess.

On the other hand, you'd have to take into acount population increases, but good pickup.

 

[Casey]

thanks big guy

 

[Kingpin]

I remember being on a bus in Hong Kong ten years back, and we were waiting at a tunnel or bridge or something, and they had an electronic scoreboard up above whichhad the year's (1995) roadtoll - which stood at something rediculous like 18,000 It was crazy.

 

[Copernicus]

It stands to reason that we'd have fewer fatalities per capita than in America - fewer cars on the road, less insane interstate freeways, generally slower speeds (the average driver goes at 120kph+ down the interstates) and older drivers (16 year olds get their licenses here and it's a recipe for disaster).

 

[nicky]

i'm very relaxed when i cross roads because i feel i know how to judge the distance and speed of cars... however over here the drivers are alot faster so i'm always having close calls.

 

[Falchoon]

Average deaths per year in the last 10 years



Road deaths
USA 44000
Australia 1600


Gun Deaths
USA 30000
Australia 500

 

[Longboysfan]

I dont even think its law for americans to wear seatbelts...

Most states make you buckel up.

There are some states that let you drive your motorcycle without a helmit.