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Originally Posted by jcyuhn
Interesting and depressing numbers in there:
- Motorcycles are 29 times more likely to have a fatal accident, per mile, than personal cars/trucks
- Personal cars/trucks are 67 times more likely to have a fata accident than commercial road transport (e.g. buses)
- Trucks/SUVs have much higher fatal single vehicle accidents than passenger cars
- Personal cars/trucks have a 112 times higher fatal accident rate than commercial air travel, per mile
Basically, motorcyclists are stupid (I own three...) and we can't drive worth anything. I guess that's not really news.
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This fact seems to be lost on most SUV buyers thinking "OMG I want a big safe truck to take the kids to school"