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Old 11th Jan 2011, 21:40
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Safety Concerns
 
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whats interesting in that article? shock horror and clever use of statistics.

Someone once worked out (but I can't remember who) that if air travel was compared with car travel on the basis of number of journeys undertaken,

flying was seven times more dangerous.

So I say again with 34,3 million cars registered in the uk alone and 1,2 million deaths worldwide, the car is looking a pretty safe bet. USA has 250,000,000 + registered cars.

Isn't it strange that statistics describing safety levels between cars and planes rarely use the same yardstick.
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