The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) maintains records of fatalities associated with car accidents in the United States. The IIHS website is linked below where they report 32,719 fatalities in the year 2013.
The US Census population clock (also linked below) reports that on Dec. 31st, 2013 there were approximately 317,773,895 persons present in the country.
To calculate the odds of dying in a car crash, we must take the number of traffic fatalities and divide by the population number. The result, expressed as a percentage, can give us an idea of the likelihood of dying in a car accident.
`(32719/(317773895))*100%= 0.0103%`
As you can see, the chance of dying in a car accident is very low, about 1 in 10,000.
However, this does not take into account dying in a car accident as opposed to other causes. The CDC reports that 2,596,993 deaths occurred in 2013. So we will calculate a new percentage as follows:
`(32719/2596993)*100%=1.26%`
So, compared to all other causes, about 1 death out of every hundred deaths is from a traffic accident.
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