I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was called

Re:I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was ... by antisthenes on Thursday May 12, 2022 @06:44PM (#31360993)

> And you could certainly make the same argument about airliners, which have a death rate <10% that of trains (and <1% that of cars).

You can, but it's not a fair comparison. 99.9% of deaths of railroad transport is people killed while crossing rails - e.g. pedestrians.

If you consider rail passengers only, it is far lower than airlines and cars, something on the scale of 2-3 people/year.

Airplanes are cheating in the sense that there are no pedestrians in the air to collide with.

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Re:I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was ... by dogecoinbase on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:22PM (#31361282)

I mean, not _zero_[0]... but close enough, really.

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Re:I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was ... by davewasthere on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:53PM (#31361517)

Wow.. And if you asked me to predict the outcome of that incident, I'd have said the fatalities would have been the other way around... go figure!

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Re:I stopped to watch kids playing at recess – security was ... by antisthenes on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:24PM (#31362180)

Haha, ok, I stand corrected.

Interesting stat.

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