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One indicator is that horseback riding today is one of the most dangerous things you can do. The injury rate for recreational riding is higher than American foo
by swalling 3y ago
One indicator is that horseback riding today is one of the most dangerous things you can do. The injury rate for recreational riding is higher than American football, car racing, and skiing. https://tsaco.bmj.com/content/6/1/e000728 https://tsaco.bmj.com/content/6/1/e000728
I would venture to guess that since stop signs, lane markings and traffic signals were all deployed after cars started killing people, there were a significant number of people annually run over by horse-drawn vehicles, thrown from horseback, or run over by pre-car vehicles like trolleys and trains. Urban streets looked something like this: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM24987 https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM24987
- pkulak 3y agoThis isn’t a hard question. Over 40,000 Americans died on roads last year. I’ll bet my house that 13,000 people were not run over by horses in 1920. But also, this is pure straw man. The modern alternatives to cars are trains, bikes and busses.
- swalling 3y agoYou’d have to look at the annual per capita numbers. Anyway I agree it’s possible cars today are way more deadly. We have no way of knowing, but we know for sure that it wasn’t all wine and honey pre automobile.
- pkulak 3y ago> You’d have to look at the annual per capita numbers. Yeah, I adjusted them. The population has tripled.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoYou're comparing horse riding to being a pedestrian though. People on the street didn't consent to the risk the same way a rider or a driver has. You'd need to compare horse bystander injuries to get something remotely comparable.