Nornagest comments on How to avoid dying in a car crash - Less Wrong

75 Post author: michaelcurzi 17 March 2012 07:44PM

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Comment author: Nornagest 20 March 2012 06:12:47PM *  2 points [-]

this presumably includes pedestrians, so is a massive overestimate of the deaths of people who were driving, but I'll go with it for now

This page claims that pedestrian fatalities represent about 11% of the total fatalities from motor vehicle accidents, so it's in the same ballpark either way. I wouldn't call that a particularly authoritative source, but by some back-of-the-envelope math it's fairly consistent with your numbers.

Comment author: bentarm 20 March 2012 06:34:58PM 2 points [-]

Thanks for checking. I probably should have bothered to do that myself, after berating Michael's lack of scholarship. This UK government publication says that 25% of road deaths were pedestrians, and 50% were car drivers, so yes, figures for total casualties are basically the same as figures for car drivers.