[Talisker]

“A typical person is more than five times as likely to die in an extinction event as in a car crash,” says a new report.

Thirty thousand people die each year in car crashes.

There are no known deaths from any known extinction level events.

But hey, who needs logic for a civilization that gave up thinking long ago?

[Larry Lucido]

Yes but one extinction event could really skew those numbers.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Thirty thousand people die each year in car crashes. ***

I have an old 1956 article somewhere that claims over NINETY THOUSAND people in the USA died in car wrecks in 1955.

[Carthego delenda est]

“but unlike sea monsters or zombie viruses, they’re real”

Really really real!!!

[dr_lew]

Thirty thousand people die each year in car crashes.

According to the internet, "Road traffic deaths" exceed 1 million, globally. With a population of order 6 billion, that gives us each a 1/6000 chance per year. I.e. in 6000 years, under current conditions, a number of people equal to today's global population would be killed in "Road traffic deaths".

This requires a global extinction event every 1200 years to keep up. Seems pretty pessimistic to me.