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In the US, there is a 1 in 93 chance you will die in a motor vehicle crash in your lifetime
(injuryfacts.nsc.org)
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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Which is still lower than the chance that you'll commit suicide. Or just simply die from a fall...or just from catching COVID.
So yeah. Pretty safe.
In Germany in comparison the chances to die in any traffic accident (car or no car) is 1 in 351. So year. Pretty much safer.
TIL There's a category in the German death statistics named "Resulting from the insertion of a foreign object into a natural body opening." And I'm only mildly disturbed. That killed 775 People in 2023 btw.
Does the insertion category include choking, or just…other things…?
It's further divided into
so it's the whole package.
Huh. German efficiency…love it!