Should I ride this Roller Coaster?

What are the odds of dying on a roller coaster or a similar ride?

  • I live near a small amusement park, and it doesn't have the most fantastic safety record. An employee was crushed by a kiddie coaster, things have fallen on people, people have gotten their hands trapped in moving parts. One tiome, a woman was flung from a spinning ride. I love rollar coasters, but i'm dort of paranoid now, since my idiot friends put it into my head. What are the odds of dying on a roller coaster?

  • Answer:

    Your chances of being fatally injured on an amusement park ride: 1 in 1.5 billion (yes, billion, as in 000,000,000) Your chances of being fatally injured in an automobile: Approximately 1 in 18,000. In other words, very high. Recent studies even found injury rates for golf, folding lawn chairs, and children's wagons higher than injury rates at amusement parks. And, according to the CPSC, a person's chances of contracting AIDS/HIV is higher than dying at an amusement park.

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