What Are The Odds Of Dying From …

By Alex in Everything Else on Feb 22, 2008 at 1:52 am

The National Safety Council has compiled a morbidly fascinating statistics about the odds of dying from or being killed by a specific incident such as a lighting strike, drowning in a bathtub, cataclysmic storm and so forth:

For instance:

A lifetime odds of a person dying in a bus accident is 1 in 94,242; as a pedestrian 1 in 631, as a car occupant 1 in 247. Thinking about gun violence? The chances of you dying from assault by firearm is 1 in 324 and by sharp object 1 in 1,813 (1 in 12,121 during a legal intervention involving firearm discharge).

Link (Photo: Qole Pejorian [Flickr]) – via Miss Cellania

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Lasse
Feb 22nd, 2008 at 6:04 am
We are all going to die, some of us earlier and for different reasons, but we are all going to at some point.
ted
Feb 22nd, 2008 at 6:15 am
Not living in the States, my chances of dying from a firearm assault are probably much lower.
Orjans Morjan
Feb 22nd, 2008 at 11:18 am
Odds of statistics not lying: 1 in 4,781
Pudifoot
Feb 22nd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I thought the most surprising figure was this:

Odds of dying from strangulation with a rubber chicken: 1 in 12
L
Feb 22nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
But… but… the gun lobbyists say we’re more likely to be killed by knives than by guns!

I find it interesting that you’re more likely to be shot than hit by a car. Interesting… but not surprising. (I’m guessing these are American statistics.)
Pudifoot
Feb 22nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
the odds of being killed by a turtle that was dropped by an eagle from a great height? about 1 in a trillion or so.

It happened once though
Thebes
Feb 23rd, 2008 at 3:10 am
What are the odds of me dying because my head was smashed in with a hammer in my own home?

I only ask, because that is what would have happened if I hadn’t owned a gun. Almost did anyway, but instead no one died that day, no one even got hurt after it was pulled out, just me before that.

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