Seat Belt Habits…

[Stoner]

13 hours ago, Doohickie said:

I think that's PA being PA.

Jackie Gleason and his cue stick would not agree.

[bob_sauve28]

By all measures, motor-vehicle safety has vastly improved since the early 1900s. Driver attitudes and behaviors have changed substantially, as has vehicle safety technology, which makes car travel safer.

The population motor-vehicle death rate reached its peak in 1937 with 30.8 deaths per 100,000 population. The current rate is 14.3 per 100,000, representing a 54% improvement.

In 1913, 33.38 people died for every 10,000 vehicles on the road. In 2021, the death rate was 1.66 per 10,000 vehicles, a 95% improvement.

In 1923, the first year miles driven was estimated, the motor-vehicle death rate was 18.65 deaths for every 100 million miles driven. Since 1923, the mileage death rate has decreased 92% and now stands at 1.50 deaths per 100 million miles driven.

Despite these historic drops, we cannot remain complacent. In 2021, the vehicle death rate increased 8.5%, the mileage death rate increased 2.7%, while the population death rate increased 11% from 2020.  

 

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatality-trends/deaths-and-rates/

[Taro T]

6 hours ago, bob_sauve28 said:

By all measures, motor-vehicle safety has vastly improved since the early 1900s. Driver attitudes and behaviors have changed substantially, as has vehicle safety technology, which makes car travel safer.

The population motor-vehicle death rate reached its peak in 1937 with 30.8 deaths per 100,000 population. The current rate is 14.3 per 100,000, representing a 54% improvement.

In 1913, 33.38 people died for every 10,000 vehicles on the road. In 2021, the death rate was 1.66 per 10,000 vehicles, a 95% improvement.

In 1923, the first year miles driven was estimated, the motor-vehicle death rate was 18.65 deaths for every 100 million miles driven. Since 1923, the mileage death rate has decreased 92% and now stands at 1.50 deaths per 100 million miles driven.

Despite these historic drops, we cannot remain complacent. In 2021, the vehicle death rate increased 8.5%, the mileage death rate increased 2.7%, while the population death rate increased 11% from 2020.  

 

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatality-trends/deaths-and-rates/

 

Moral of the story, make sure you don't drive 100 million miles.  You'll die 1.5 times over.  😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Yes, we know that's NOT how sadistics statistics work.  It's a joke you hosers.  😜  )

[Doohicksie]

6 hours ago, bob_sauve28 said:

In 2021, the vehicle death rate increased 8.5%, the mileage death rate increased 2.7%, while the population death rate increased 11% from 2020.  

That's a Covid effect.  In 2020 there was very little traffic as everyone was being quarantined.  If people had to go out for something the got what they needed and went home.  By 2021 people were getting out and about more, and bored people were driving around just for fun, in many cases seeing how fast they could go.  We live a block away from a freeway and after the initial Covid quarantines we could hear the cars on the freeway revving their engines; since then the freeway sounds like a NASCAR track, particularly in the evenings.