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I imagine ambulances save more lives than automobiles take.
by billmalarky 9y ago
I imagine ambulances save more lives than automobiles take.
- amch 9y agoSeems pretty easy to quantify - it looks like there are ~37K motor vehicle deaths in a given year [0] and "Approximately 6.2 million patient transport ambulance trips occur annually." [1] Ambulances would need to save their passengers' lives <1% of the time for them to "break even" so to speak. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i... [1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811677.pdf https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811677.pdf
- fenwick67 9y agoMany many ambulance trips are non-emergency. Even the emergency trips, it's difficult to say whether the person would have died if they didn't have an ambulance. Overall this would be pretty hard to quantify.