That seems to be sourced from a plain HTML page from 2001, reporting stats limited to the UK through the year 2000[1]. I guess it's not implausible, but it does

That seems to be sourced from a plain HTML page from 2001, reporting stats limited to the UK through the year 2000[1]. I guess it's not implausible, but it doesn't seem to line up with these more up to date US-based stats[2] where airline deaths are so close to 0 that it's hard to form a meaningful ratio between them and road deaths. If it were truly more dangerous on a per-trip basis, you'd expect the number to at least be a significant fraction. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010907173322/http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/risks_of_travel.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20010907173322/http://www.number... [2] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/deaths-by-transportation-mode/ https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics... Edit: Very good analysis done by another user, over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40822484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40822484