Plane vs car safety question.?

Question:
ok, so they say that planes are safer then cars. but aren't you more likely to survive a car crash than a plane crash?

Answers:

Car Accident! I need HELP!?

The measure of transportation safety is accidents (or deaths) per million-passenger miles.

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Let's use some reasonable estimates to compare.
Cars travel about 12,000 miles per year (mostly short trips) with 1 or 2 people per car on average. There are at least 100 million cars in the US (probably closer to 150 or 200 M.) And there are about 50,000 vehicle deaths every year.

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Passenger aircraft are piloted by and maintained by highly trained and capable professionals. In a bad 5 year stretch of time, maybe 3 large passenger aircraft will crash, with a loss of life about 500 to 750 persons, so on average, 100 to 150 per year. The larger airports will handle 10 to 20 million passengers per year, and the US has about 15 very large airports. The average flight distance is 500 miles per trip.

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Do the math to figure out the number of passenger deaths per million miles, and you'll see that statistically, you have a significantly greater chance of being killed driving to the airport, vs flying in a plane.

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You are more likly to survive a car crash then a plane crash, but there are thousands of more car crashes, if not millions more, then there are plane crashes. Today, I heard of 14 reported accidents in my city, and not one plane crash...When a plane crashes, its usually world news. When a car crashes, its usually just mentioned in the traffic report. planes are safer because of the amounts of crashes compaired to the amount of flights.

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Per 100,000 miles, you are more likely to die in a car crash than a commercial jetliner crash. However, you are more likely to die in a private plane crash than in a car crash. In other words, a commercial jetliner is safer than a car which in turn is safer than a private plane.

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If asphalt is damaged, in, say, a car accident, how can one close a busy road for "patch work" for things?

They say planes are safer. But I ask you this. If the plane has engine trouble. Can you pull over to the curb,stop the plane ,get out and see what's wrong??

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Driving on ice?

Yes, you are. Planes are safer only because of the LIKELIHOOD of an accident is less.

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