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Originally Posted by Jrboulder
1955-1965: 237 car accidents per 100,000 population
2005-2015: 129 car accidents per 100,000 population
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You're going to have to post a source for that, or an awful lot of us are going to call "BS".
There are
so many factors that go into what constitutes a "car accident". Injury accidents or every little fender bender? Just car on car, or involving pedestrians, stationary objects, farm animals, etc.?
And what "population"? The car owning population, or the general population, including those who do not own a car?
How about as related to use? In other words, accidents per mile driven? Did the average car get driven more in the '50's and '60's?
There are a lot of relevant questions that go unanswered when you just post a set of numbers like that. I see throughout this thread that many (not all) of us who ride perceive it to be more dangerous today than it was many years ago. There are more distracted drivers and more things to distract them than ever before. Granted, none of us posted any stats to back up what is purely our gut feel, but now you have introduced some. Show us where you got them so we can analyze and discuss.