Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: "The death rate in 1-3-year-old minicars in multiple-vehicle crashes during 2007 was almost twice as high as the rate in very large cars." It is the same for single-vehicle crashes: "The death rate per million 1-3-year-old minis [small cars] in single-vehicle crashes during 2007 was 35 compared with 11 per million for very large cars. Even in midsize cars, the death rate in single-vehicle crashes was 17 percent lower than in minicars." http://www.iihs.org/news/rss/pr041409.html Tom Sz. On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > Chris Crawford wrote: > >>Don't believe everything the government tells you. In 2000, I was driving >>my 1991 Chevy Caprice down West Jefferson Boulevard, Fort Wayne's main >>east-west road. Speed limit on the highway is 50mph, and I was going close >>to that when a woman who was high on pot ran a stop light and pulled into >>an intersection I was passing through. I slammed on my brakes and my car >>crashed directly into the side of her Ford Tempo, a small car. My car >>caved in the side of her car and pushed it 50 feet off the road. My car >>was smashed a bit in the front but was still driveable. I drove it home! > > A single anecdote no matter how meaningful to you does little to predict > the outcome of future unknown accidents. ?We can't predict with 100% > accuracy any particular accident, the severity of each one or the outcome > of any single event but over time by accumulating data from numerous > incidents patterns can appear. ?That's what the NHTSA data is supposed to > represent. > > OTOH if your particular driving habits include a greater-than-average > incidence of crossing intersections when someone else is rolling through a > stop sign then your anecdote has some value in predicting your future > accidents. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information