Wanna Know What Your Chances Are?

[RAFH]

Wanna know what your chances of dying were if you happened to be a 36 year old, white from Hanapepe, Kauai, HI, driving a rental car in Kentucky on November 14, 1992 while traveling at 31 mph and getting hit by something striking the top of vehicle?

Check it out:

http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

A grand way to waste a lot of time.

[Mike PSS]

Wanna know what your chances of dying were if you happened to be a 36 year old, white from Hanapepe, Kauai, HI, driving a rental car in Kentucky on November 14, 1992 while traveling at 31 mph and getting hit by something striking the top of vehicle?

Check it out:

http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

A grand way to waste a lot of time.
So the only increases across time are Motorcycle Riders. More than double the fatalities in 12 years. Most of the rest are (statistically) flat except maybe vehicle passengers (decrease) and pedestrians (decrease).

Which means with greater population, greater number of vehicles and vehicle miles, and greater number of lisenced drivers the accident rates are going down.

Just don't drive a motorbike.

The challange in the next twenty years is to keep the numbers flat as the country trades in the pickups and SUVs for smaller cars.

[Quizalufagus]

I suspect that fatality rates will actually decline if smaller cars replace pickups and SUVs in significant numbers. Larger cars may provide better protection to their passengers, but they're also more dangerous to other people on the road.

[B Cereus]

So the only increases across time are Motorcycle Riders. More than double the fatalities in 12 years. Most of the rest are (statistically) flat except maybe vehicle passengers (decrease) and pedestrians (decrease).

Which means with greater population, greater number of vehicles and vehicle miles, and greater number of lisenced drivers the accident rates are going down.

Just don't drive a motorbike.



And those increases cause quite a lot of discussion on the motorcycle boards. Helmets vs. no helmets; older slower riders vs. younger riders on fast sport bikes; and so on. I believe that the NHTSA is supposed to be starting a new study specifically on motorcycle crashes. It would be nice to figure out the cause(s) of the increase, if that is possible.

[BWE]

Stupid riders. I'm just sayin.

[CelticChic]

My motorcycle-riding co-worker has a couple thoughts.

1) more older, slower riders (though not necessarily driving any slower!). He rides with groups where some of the people are pushing 80!
2) street bikes have gotten faster making it more likely that the idiots (ie. early 20-something males) riding them will injure/kill themselves when they crash
3) more traffic in general.

I quit riding several years ago because of #3 and I miss it, but the traffic was just too scary. Though it may be a lot better here in the northwest. Drivers here are so laid back that I actually get annoyed sometimes (driving 5-10 under on the highway is common around here it seems).

[ofro]

2) street bikes have gotten faster making it more likely that the idiots (ie. early 20-something males) riding them will injure/kill themselves when they crash


We need more of these young idiots. They are the best organ donors.

As long as we are not talking about brain transplants.

[RAFH]

Wanna know what your chances of dying were if you happened to be a 36 year old, white from Hanapepe, Kauai, HI, driving a rental car in Kentucky on November 14, 1992 while traveling at 31 mph and getting hit by something striking the top of vehicle?

Check it out:

http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

A grand way to waste a lot of time.
So the only increases across time are Motorcycle Riders. More than double the fatalities in 12 years. Most of the rest are (statistically) flat except maybe vehicle passengers (decrease) and pedestrians (decrease).

Which means with greater population, greater number of vehicles and vehicle miles, and greater number of lisenced drivers the accident rates are going down.

Just don't drive a motorbike.

The challange in the next twenty years is to keep the numbers flat as the country trades in the pickups and SUVs for smaller cars.

Ever since I swore off them many years ago, and not, by the way, because of an accident, I've referred to them as MurderCycles. Usually self-murder, but murder nonetheless,

[RAFH]

2) street bikes have gotten faster making it more likely that the idiots (ie. early 20-something males) riding them will injure/kill themselves when they crash


We need more of these young idiots. They are the best organ donors.

As long as we are not talking about brain transplants.

I'm in total agreement, I'm getting close to needing a full body transplant. The old one, which was okay up until a couple of decades ago, is well past its warranty, which wasn't worth much in the first place.

[Goldie]

My chances are not good. Even an eval shrink... for a (yet another) surgery told me. "You know you just have been dealt a bad hand. You are not going to live very long."
My response: "I know."

[RAFH]

My chances are not good. Even an eval shrink... for a (yet another) surgery told me. "You know you just have been dealt a bad hand. You are not going to live very long."
My response: "I know."

I'd get a second opinion.

[Loren Pechtel]

I'm in total agreement, I'm getting close to needing a full body transplant. The old one, which was okay up until a couple of decades ago, is well past its warranty, which wasn't worth much in the first place.

Yeah--God's warranty service sucks!

[RAFH]

I'm in total agreement, I'm getting close to needing a full body transplant. The old one, which was okay up until a couple of decades ago, is well past its warranty, which wasn't worth much in the first place.

Yeah--God's warranty service sucks!

I'm still trying to find the complaint's division. Nobody seems to answer the numbers which weren't listed at the service center that doesn't exist.

Then again, you get what you pay for. If I did have a former life, it must have been a particularly wild one. Either that or I'm on the pre-pay plan and I can expect a hell of a ride one of these lifetimes.

[Mike PSS]

I'm in total agreement, I'm getting close to needing a full body transplant. The old one, which was okay up until a couple of decades ago, is well past its warranty, which wasn't worth much in the first place.

Yeah--God's warranty service sucks!

I'm still trying to find the complaint's division. Nobody seems to answer the numbers which weren't listed at the service center that doesn't exist.

Then again, you get what you pay for. If I did have a former life, it must have been a particularly wild one. Either that or I'm on the pre-pay plan and I can expect a hell of a ride one of these lifetimes.
Try tithing. 10% off the top.

I'll start a church just so you can tithe to me. It's a win-win.

[Goldie]

My chances are not good. Even an eval shrink... for a (yet another) surgery told me. "You know you just have been dealt a bad hand. You are not going to live very long."
My response: "I know."

I've had... oh... over 20... maybe 30 opinions...
It's alright. Maybe I'll fool 'em all. :)

[RAFH]

Yeah--God's warranty service sucks!

I'm still trying to find the complaint's division. Nobody seems to answer the numbers which weren't listed at the service center that doesn't exist.

Then again, you get what you pay for. If I did have a former life, it must have been a particularly wild one. Either that or I'm on the pre-pay plan and I can expect a hell of a ride one of these lifetimes.
Try tithing. 10% off the top.

I'll start a church just so you can tithe to me. It's a win-win.

Uh, OK. When can I expect to see some benefits? I'd appreciate some degree of accuracy. Oh, yeah, what sort of benefits are we discussing here?

You might also want to look at my avatar which is indeed a picture of myself and imagine my behavior if seriously disappointed. This gawd feller would wish he were in a regular hospital* if I could ever lay my hands on the bugger.










*Not the one I would take him to. They have a theory electro-shock, like in the good old days, applied often and with few if any limitations, is a cure all. Least ways, nobody's been complaining much. Not that they are able to make out anyway.

[Hedwig]

My chances are not good. Even an eval shrink... for a (yet another) surgery told me. "You know you just have been dealt a bad hand. You are not going to live very long."
My response: "I know."

I've had... oh... over 20... maybe 30 opinions...
It's alright. Maybe I'll fool 'em all. :)

Hey, when Death comes with his scythe, kick him in the nards and run. ;)

[Loren Pechtel]

I'm in total agreement, I'm getting close to needing a full body transplant. The old one, which was okay up until a couple of decades ago, is well past its warranty, which wasn't worth much in the first place.

Yeah--God's warranty service sucks!

I'm still trying to find the complaint's division. Nobody seems to answer the numbers which weren't listed at the service center that doesn't exist.

Exactly. You can't even find the warranty service to get it.

Then again, you get what you pay for. If I did have a former life, it must have been a particularly wild one. Either that or I'm on the pre-pay plan and I can expect a hell of a ride one of these lifetimes.

To whom is the bill sent?

[ninewands]

Pah! Life, itself, is a terminal illness ... nobody has survived it yet that I'm aware of, so laugh often and love well. You only go 'round once, so you better get it right.

[RAFH]

Pah! Life, itself, is a terminal illness ... nobody has survived it yet that I'm aware of, so laugh often and love well. You only go 'round once, so you better get it right.

Nobody gets out alive.


Well, supposedly.

Actually, I prefer to love often and laugh well, with some chocolate thrown in.

If you think about it, one of the best things we've got going, sex, which is absolutely essential to keeping the merry-go-round going around, is one of the most comical and awkward activities imaginable. There used to be a web-site called something like Le Petite Morde, the little death, referring to orgasm. They got that right.

[BWE]

My motorcycle-riding co-worker has a couple thoughts.

1) more older, slower riders (though not necessarily driving any slower!). He rides with groups where some of the people are pushing 80!
2) street bikes have gotten faster making it more likely that the idiots (ie. early 20-something males) riding them will injure/kill themselves when they crash
3) more traffic in general.

I quit riding several years ago because of #3 and I miss it, but the traffic was just too scary. Though it may be a lot better here in the northwest. Drivers here are so laid back that I actually get annoyed sometimes (driving 5-10 under on the highway is common around here it seems).

That would be me, er, going too slow and not hurrying. Sorry.

[Theropod]

My motorcycle-riding co-worker has a couple thoughts.

1) more older, slower riders (though not necessarily driving any slower!). He rides with groups where some of the people are pushing 80!
2) street bikes have gotten faster making it more likely that the idiots (ie. early 20-something males) riding them will injure/kill themselves when they crash
3) more traffic in general.

I quit riding several years ago because of #3 and I miss it, but the traffic was just too scary. Though it may be a lot better here in the northwest. Drivers here are so laid back that I actually get annoyed sometimes (driving 5-10 under on the highway is common around here it seems).

That would be me, er, going too slow and not hurrying. Sorry.

Hey,

You guys should be real happy you do not live near here(north central Arkansas, USA). Mark Martin, the semi retired NASCAR driver lives near here and has a car dealership or two. Most rednecks here think they are him and drive for track position with every commute. I have had idiots pass me on blind curves when I thought I was pushing it a little. I' see moves that make me cringe every week. I agree that these are prime organ donors and the sats prove it.

Save fuel, drive slow. Save lives, drive fast and keep your donor card current.