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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Very confusing and conflicting numbers. 136 crashes per year times 15 percent equals 20 deaths or disabilities per year. Yet, the previous sentence says there were only 9 deaths or disabilities per year from crashes. Which is it? And why combine deaths and disabilities into the same statistic? Death is death, but there is a huge range of subjective definitions for disabilities.
But, I don't own a golf cart because I think it is too dangerous to travel on the same roads as cars and trucks.
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Out of 136 crashes, 48 percent required hospitalization. Out of that, 15 percent resulted in death or disability.
136 times .48 times .15 = 9