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Death causes in 2011 (Old news)
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:57 pm
by akirk
This may be old news to some, but something I have just seen referenced on Pistonheads was this diagram from the Guardian:
found in the article here:
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablo ... wales-2010PDF here:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/G ... 2_2011.pdfso transport deaths were 1,970 out of 493,242 deaths in the year - i.e. 0.39% of deaths
are we spending a disproportional amount of money on dealing with deaths on the road statistics... when nearly double the number of deaths was from falls (lets ban steps!) and an increasing number and considerably higher from mental health issues which is a very under-funded area...
Alasdair
Re: Death causes in 2011 (Old news)
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:21 am
by Horse
Interesting discussion as there is, statistically speaking, a 100% mortality rate for humans (excluding any Schroedinger people who disappear so are indeterminate
).
One of my (many) pet hates is medicos 'saving lives' - really it's only a delay which, as a bonus, gives the opportunity to suffer from something else instead.
H, cheery as ever
Re: Death causes in 2011 (Old news)
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:31 am
by Adamxck
I like you.
Re: Death causes in 2011 (Old news)
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:42 am
by Revian
It's a fine balance between saving life and delaying death.... And a mine field in every direction.
Re: Death causes in 2011 (Old news)
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:10 pm
by devonutopia
1,970 transport (wholly) related deaths compared to half a million in total? For some reason I thought it might be higher.
Re: Death causes in 2011 (Old news)
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:46 pm
by MrToad
Take out the self-selecting candidates (drink, drugs, stolen vehicles, no license, no seatbelt etc.), and I bet it'd be a lot lower than that too.
Re: Death causes in 2011 (Old news)
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:36 am
by Revian
Take out those which are essentially 'old age' (and essentially unavoidable) the comparison is different.
Re: Death causes in 2011 (Old news)
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 12:57 pm
by Horse
MrToad wrote:Take out the self-selecting candidates (drink, drugs, stolen vehicles, no license, no seatbelt etc.), and I bet it'd be a lot lower than that too.
Might change the accident stats if DLAC resulted in a coroner's verdict of 'suicide ' . . .
Re: Death causes in 2011 (Old news)
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2015 7:12 am
by StressedDave
Nah... too harsh - needs to be DLARC
Re: Death causes in 2011 (Old news)
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2015 9:11 am
by dvenman
Revian wrote:...and essentially unavoidable...
Isn't any death essentially unavoidable ?
