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Old 12th Jul 2016, 18:46
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Originally Posted by Heathrow Harry
but on that one day the risk of being hit by a Hunter turned out to be 100%............

OK that is the .00001% chance but it still happened and so it has to be investigated and , if necessary, there will be a court case
Where do I start..?

1. Many many thousands of cars used that road "on that one day". The vast majority were not hit.

2. As Salad kindly pointed out, it's a probability not a risk, and it was not 100% even for the cars that were hit. Even 1 in a million chances happen once in a while.

3. You are going to have to add an awful lot more zeros to your % chance estimate, otherwise 1 in every 100,000 cars that ever passed down that road in the last 50 years would be wiped out. I'm pretty sure that that has not happened...
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