How are you gentlemen?

[BLINGMW]

Chan you are an ISAT nerd at heart.

eh, maybe not, I didn't bother making any graphs. :wink:

In fact, I was pretty lazy. Spending a few hours on it, I wasn't able to find any good data split out by age group, and NHTSA (where I found most of the data) mostly focuses on injuries and fatalities. So this is only compared to national averages of all drivers.

of the 27 people who responded:

Avg age is 26. Until we're 34, auto accidents will continue to be our leading cause of death. Whoohoo!

Starting with automobiles---
We've driven an average of 189,666 miles each for a total of 5.12 million miles. I suppose that's reasonable, if as a group we've been driving for ~10 years.

We're somewhat in line with the 2006 national average for injuries. We have 0.12/100k miles, the national average is 0.09. I'd say that's probably good considering our age group. The bad news is, using either 0.12 or 0.09, we'll likely ALL be injured at some point in our lives while driving!

Accident #'s aren't so great. There are usually around 4.2 million accidents reported each year, but the NHTSA states ~10mil more go unreported. So I did the best I could and got a national average of 0.42/100k miles. We're more than 3x times higher than that at 1.37. 2.6 accidents for each of us already. I suppose this is due to age, but it could also be that we're considering any accident, while the "unreported" estimate added to the reported # may not be very accurate.

Bikes!
23,323 miles each for a total of 326,520 miles.

I was surprised to see that with not nearly as much data, we're again in line with the 2006 national average for injuries. We're at 0.92/100k miles, the national average is 0.81. Not great though, looks like we're potentially less safe than the average joe on a bike. And I saw quoted a few places that you're 8 times more likely to be injured on a bike than a car. Sadly (but in a warm and fuzzy data-validating way), per mile, our bike injuries are almost exactly 8x our car injuries.

I failed to find/fabricate a national average for non-injury motorcycle accidents. But our average is 6.43/100k miles! We're already at 1.5 accidents each.

Your happy thought for the night? The rising national average of motorcycle fatalities is now at .0425/100k miles. ~30x greater than cars/trucks. Before our club reaches, collectively, 10x the bike mileage we're racked up, one of us will be dead. :|

That's all?

Yes!

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