The quote is from an ambulance chaser site...
According to the National Safety Council (NSC), an American’s lifetime odds of dying in a car crash are 1 in 107 as of 2019.
this is why i look left and right when a red light goes green. cause people are fuckin stupid.
Smart. I've done the same since back in the day I almost got hammered by a women driving and texting. I got saved by the traffic camera. When the car ran the red light the camera flashed. I looked to my right and there was a Prius doing like 45 coming right at me.
Day after Thanksgiving I saw a women get killed walking through a crosswalk in a quiet, residential neighborhood. The stop sign is almost impossible to see being right behind a giant oak tree that residents have fought to keep the city from cutting down.
I've been honked at for not just gunning it when the light turns green lol. Defensive driving has prevented me from being in at least 6 accidents ranging from fender benders to likely fatal.
I've come close quite a few times both as passenger and pedestrian fuck cars.
I probably would have guessed 1 in ~400.
It might drop to that once you turn like 26. A lot of these deaths are the result of deciding that it's a good year to give 17 year old boys a 2 ton death machine. They're generally needlessly dangerous and it's preferable we use trains and busses where the risk is reduced both generally and by stricter requirements for operators. But the lifetime risk is exaggerated because we've built society around requiring that people who don't have full appreciation of their own mortality have access to cars.
The boys driving a death machine after a six pack of natty usually survive. My risk of getting t boned by some shithead doesn't decrease with age.
Ngl how safe someone drives is a huge priority when dating for me. People really immediately reveal how little they care about others (or themselves) when behind the wheel
They should make cars all very unsafe so we have to drive more carefully in order to not die in a fender bender. Which is why I drive a 90s Japanese tin can
Sure, it's a waste of money, pollutes like hell, and is practically disposable so you can buy another one, but HEY! You get to feel like a MANLY COWBOY!
Cars are the Marlboro of yesteryear and today: change my mind.
Wow, that's alot higher than I'd have expected. Weird how automobile deaths are totally normalized in this country.
Weird how automobile deaths are totally normalized in this country.
I saw the stat in a unsourced tweet so I had to google it. I couldn't quite believe it. I knew the stat was high but I just couldn't quite accept that it was that high. I thought whoever gave the stat screwed up and maybe the real number was something like 1 in 307.
Rant: Unsourced stuff really annoys me.
Good on you for double checking and being skeptical though, so much easier to just hard code that shit into your brain as a new fact
just hard code that shit into your brain as a new fact
My wetware is bad enough. The last thing I need to do is add new bugs due to my laziness.
In the US it is statistically probablythat every person will be involved in an automobile accident at some point in their life.
:amerikkka: freedom roads + popular car styles + lethal speed = meat grinder
