From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdcattb!sdcarl!rusty
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Title: motorcycles dangerous?
Article-I.D.: sdcarl.4267
Posted: Sun Mar  6 10:59:49 1983
Received: Tue Mar  8 04:29:47 1983

From: rusty
in response to rabbit!ark's query i dug up these statistics
which my roommate dug up when i bought my bike.

from the National Center for Health Statistics, Final Mortality
Statistics, United States, 1976-1978:

activity		chance of death in a year
========		=========================
motorcycling		1 in 50
smoking, 1 pack a day	1 in 200
horse racing		1 in 750
auto driving		1 in 6,000
power boating		1 in 6,000
rock climing		1 in 7,500
playing football	1 in 25,000
canoeing		1 in 100,000

i wonder what the percentages were for those with and without
a helmet of those 50?