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8 DEATHS ARE VERY TRAGIC
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Annual Estimates of ATV - Related Deaths and Risk
of Death for Four-Wheel ATVs As of December 31,
2001
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Source U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Directorate for Epidemiology, Division of Hazard
Analysis
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http//webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_sy.
html
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Probability of ATV fatality If 1.5 per 10,000
then 15 per 100,000
1,400,000 ISDRA visitor days / 100,000 14
Probability of ISDRA fatality 8 / 14 0.57 per
100,000
Probability of motor vehicle fatality 15.67 per
100,000
Probability of ISDRA fatality compared to
Probability of ATV fatality 15/.57 26.31 or
1/26th the probability of national average for
ATVs
Probability of ISDRA fatality compared to motor
vehicles 15.67 / .57 27.49
27.5 times more likely to die on Americas
streets and highways
Average 15,500 murders in US 5.38 per
100,000 or almost 10 times more
likelyhttp//www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/cius
2000.htm
National Flu death rate 22.68 per 100,000Almost
40 times more likely
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As compiled from data reported by the National
Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 50, No. 15,
September 16, 2002