Navaho6
10-18-2006, 01:53 PM
From November issue of AMA magazine:
This just in: Americans are less likely to die riding motorcycles than driving cars.
That’s the word from National Geographic magazine, which used stats from the National Safety Council to compare the odds of dying from all kinds of different causes, ranking them in order of likelihood.
First on the list was heart disease (1 in 5), followed by cancer (1 in 7), stroke (1 in 24), and a motor-vehicle accident (1 in 84).
Tenth on the list was a motorcycle accident (1 in 1,020), which fell right between drowning (1 in 1,008) and fire or smoke (1 in 1,113). Yeah, we know—there are fewer motorcyclists than swimmers.
This just in: Americans are less likely to die riding motorcycles than driving cars.
That’s the word from National Geographic magazine, which used stats from the National Safety Council to compare the odds of dying from all kinds of different causes, ranking them in order of likelihood.
First on the list was heart disease (1 in 5), followed by cancer (1 in 7), stroke (1 in 24), and a motor-vehicle accident (1 in 84).
Tenth on the list was a motorcycle accident (1 in 1,020), which fell right between drowning (1 in 1,008) and fire or smoke (1 in 1,113). Yeah, we know—there are fewer motorcyclists than swimmers.