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Turtle_n_Peeps
May 12, 2015Explorer
Crowe wrote:
Again, it's a higher-than-average risk type of place, that's all.
Do you have any links or statistics to prove that statement? Or is it just a feeling?
Here is mine:
"People are looking at things other than the road," Gaumer said. "They're sightseeing. Even though the speed limits are lower in the parks, these are mostly two-lane roads."
"We have lots of traffic accidents every day," Miller said. She estimated that there are about three "life-flights" to transport a person out of the park to a hospital every day during the busy summer months. "They're mostly because of car accidents and medical problems, like heart attacks. Animal encounters are rare."
Indeed, medical problems rival car accidents as a cause of death in the parks. In Yellowstone, of the 61 fatalities that occurred in the park from 1998 to 2006, 23 were due to either heart attacks or diabetes. Link
So as you can see, when the true facts come out, "animal encounters and any other death events are rare and traffic accidents aren't; just like I said in my first post.
As most people think I'm crazy driving a race car at 140+ miles an hour. I know from true facts that me being hurt or killed at the track is almost non-existent. But the 6 hour drive to and from the track is several orders of magnitude higher of me being killed on the public road. (As a matter of a fact I just missed a head on by 5 minutes driving to my last race.)
Those are the facts that I can prove.
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