Re: Angry [More Info]

"Hilton" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:yKjtf.1620$Hl6.445@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Allow me to quote a couple of sentences from the latest Nall Report
> (2004):
> "Accidents in such conditions, for example, adverse weather or at night,
> are more likely to result in fatality."
> "...only 14.0 percent of daytime accidents resulted in fatalities. At
> night, more than one in three (36.1 percent) was fatal."

That's not a meaningful comparison, though. A higher proportion of
fatalities among nighttime accidents could result from a lower rate (per
hour) of nonfatal accidents rather than a higher rate of fatal accidents.

However, the fatality rate at night is indeed higher (and for night IMC,
it's higher still). But I don't know whether that's due to a greater danger
following an engine failure or electrical failure, or instead due to the
danger of, for example, maneuvering accidents during circling approaches
under a low ceiling. If the latter, the increased danger could be eliminated
by avoiding such approaches at night.

--Gary


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Heathrow down
    ... one fatality to a passenger, ... So if you include all accidents then the 50% or so chance drops ...
    (uk.rec.motorcycles)
  • Re: "Dangerous Roads"
    ... >> Inanimate means whatever popular usage says it means. ... > placed on drivers, want to rewrite the language, rather than just ... > In fact danger is the potential for harm, ... > nearly all accidents are the fault of drivers. ...
    (uk.rec.driving)
  • Re: "Dangerous Roads"
    ... >Inanimate means whatever popular usage says it means. ... placed on drivers, want to rewrite the language, rather than just ... In fact danger is the potential for harm, ... nearly all accidents are the fault of drivers. ...
    (uk.rec.driving)
  • Re: NIP arrived.
    ... It is irrelevant to the debate whether or not all accidents ... >>> boil down to being driver error. ... For a given skill level, the road is harder to negotiate safely. ... It is the other drivers that are the danger to you, ...
    (uk.rec.driving)
  • Re: NIP arrived.
    ... You are in favour of making roads safer, or, less dangerous. ... I am in favour of making the danger ... The road itself never causes the accidents, ... danger associated with using the road would be driver training. ...
    (uk.rec.driving)