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This is a false comparison, and not very ‘logical’, because of the sheer number of people riding cars and spending time in them is astronomically higher than the number of people who skate.
Think of the number of people who drive, and the amount of time they spend behind the wheel. It’s not even comparable. If the numbers were equal, I suspect you’d see a WAY higher head injury ratio in skateboarding.
Personally over my life I’ve spend probably 100x more time behind the wheel than on a skateboard, both well over 20 years, but I’ve never had any of the injuries, much less head bumps, that I’ve had in skating
Do you seriously believe driving is safer than skateboarding?
If you live in the states, your chances of dying in a car accident are slightly over 1 in ten thousand.
You think 1 in 10 000 skateboarders die as a result of an injurybsuatained during skateboarding? And yes, i'm talking about comparable times apent behind the wheel vs. Time spent on 4 wheels.
And that's not even getting into the numbers of non-fatal hrad injuries due to car accidents. The numbers aren't even close.
Furthermore, unless you drive for a living, or have a serious commute, the average skateboarder spends more time skating than mist oeiple spend driving.
My argument is based on the premise that driving is more dangerous than skating, and the stats support that idea.
Do I believe driving is safer? Absolutely.
Because of the speed and power of driving, when something goes wrong it goes REALLY wrong, which accounts for a high fatality rate.
But even so, do I believe that 1 in 10,000 skaters die from skating? I definitely could. I don’t see anything particularly extreme in that number. But I’d be happy to see some stats, if you have any to back up your assertion.
But are we measuring how dangerous something is by fatality? Twisted ankles? Neither of those are particularly fair comparisons, due to the nature of the activities. We can, but those are different threads.
This thread is about brain trauma, and you brought up the driving thing, saying that skaters are not as likely to receive head injuries as vehicle passengers.
So let’s stick with that.
And we could do an informal poll here on SLAP, and I guarantee you there will be more head injuries here due to skating than driving.
By the way, you claim ‘stats support my idea’, but you only give vehicle stats, only for fatalities. Not for head injuries, and no data on time spent in a car. And most importantly, none for skating. Where are those?