Originally Posted By: Shannow
Originally Posted By: 69GTX
Odds of dying from various causes
I don't see where motorcyclists have a 26X higher rate of mortality than from an automobile. This graphic shows a motorcyclist having about the same odds as drying. And better survival rates than pedestrians, car occupant, car driver, and falls. It's well down the list.
Given that's the average across the population, it's not hard to see the difference.
300M people are car occupants, and have a 1 in 606 chance of dying in one.
You have a 1 in 948 chance of dying in a motorcycle accident as a citizen of the US, but 90% of citizens don't ride, so you have to reduce the population to those who ride...number that I've got are 1:36 people are motorcyclists in the US.
So the 1:948 becomes 1
948/36), which is about 1:26 RIDERS.
1:606 versus 1:26 is 23 times as likely to die as a participant in the activity.
People seem to almost never take into account ratios when they read stats. It's like they just don't think.
And then if you turn to common sense....you'd have to be suffering brain damage (maybe from crashing a motorcycle?) not to realize that riding bikes are far more dangerous than driving a car.