Originally Posted by dliske
I would tend to agree that more people die from everyday driving than do as a result of streetracing itself, in total. However, it is pretty shortsighted to simply stand on that point, because there probably needs to be some adjustment to adequately compare the two activities. If you took the numbers in raw form (as you have in your argument) and could actually adjust the numbers to "deaths per miles driven," I would have to believe that the streetracing numbers would be higher considering the fewer numbers of participants and the distance travelled during the activitiy, compared to all other drivers and the miles that they drive on a daily basis.
Exactly. The number of people driving normally everyday is *FAR* greated than the numbers of people street racing. This does NOT make street racing any "safer" than driving everyday. If you looked at this statistically based on number of fatalities alone without any influence of other data (number of participients, distance, etc) I'm sure street racing will look "safe". Of course, that's a foolish way to look at it and about as obvious as the whole "most accidents occur withint 4 miles of your home". Well duh, that's where you spend a majority of time.