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P-51,Oct 11 2007, 01: Wrote:The vast majority of people do have collisions.  I don't think I know a single person who hasn't.

Must be the crowd you run with ... j/k ... but you're wrong - the majority of people do not have collisions.

Here's the numbers: in 2005 there were 2,578 fatal accidents and 149,153 accidents involving injury (all you had to do was say you felt pain and it was classified as injury - no hospital or doctors visit required to substantiate.

Now, here's the kicker - these numbers are for the whole country. Even if you double the number assuming every one was a two car accident - that's still "only" 300,000 people involved in collisions and if you want to double again to account for no-injury collisions - that's still only 600,000 people involved in collisions out of a country of 30 million. That's 2 percent of the population -- double again or quadruple again if you want - that's still less than 10% of the population involved in collisions and that even assumes that there are no repeaters.

The fact is the vast majority of people never have collisions throughout their entire life.

I'm looking at compiling the stats for speeding charges but it's going to be a similar story.

P51 Wrote:

Quote:The f***tard wannabe racers should slow the f*** down. People crossing the street judge the time they have by figuring the oncoming driver is doing 50, 60, 70, or whatever the limit is maybe plus 20. Nobody figures on people doing 100 in a 50 zone.

Well, I disagree with this. People should judge crossing time based on rate of closure, not distance. That's stupid, for just this reason
Our brains have been programmed to judge rate of closure of predators for millions of years. Let's use them.

A child's ability to judge time, distance and speed are not as fully developed as an adult's and furthermore they often lack a sense of understanding as to the consequences of misjudging.

I'm not really disagreeing with you, but the perspective is that pedestrians in general and our children especially require and deserve special protection in and around roads and I personally find nothing wrong with that.