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There are were 42000 brain injury-related hospitalizations for motor vehicle occupants per year, though this data is from before 2001. https://stacks.cdc.gov/v
by monort 10y ago
There are were 42000 brain injury-related hospitalizations for motor vehicle occupants per year, though this data is from before 2001.
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/13379/cdc_13379_DS1.pdf https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/13379/cdc_13379_DS1.pdf (Table 10)
- umanwizard 10y agoSure but you have to normalize it somehow. Americans drive way more than they bike. I imagine if you calculated this per-time or per-distance, driving would still come out much safer for the brain than cycling without a helmet.
- lmm 10y agoAgain just from memory, driving is a lot worse per-time and per-commute, though a small factor better per-distance.