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Odds of being killed sometime in the next year in any sort of transportation accident: 77 to 1
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[/ QUOTE ]this has to be wrong. because a person's life expectancy is about 73 years or something i think. and even though the odds of getting killed in that manner changes over the life-cycle, there are many many other ways to die(cancer, heart attack, violence) and those will all have to amount to a very neglible number forthat to be true.
also, did 1/77th of your high school/college class die in transportation accidents EACH year?
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Odds of getting killed (for American) at all in the next year are about 0.8% so that 77 to 1 is ridiculous.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
Deaths/Mortality
(Data are for U.S. for year indicated)
Number of deaths: 2,448,288
Death rate: 841.9 deaths per 100,000 population
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 109,277