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monort
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Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business...
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
(Table 10)
umanwizard
on March 17, 2017
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Sure 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
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Again just from memory, driving is a lot worse per-time and per-commute, though a small factor better per-distance.
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/13379/cdc_13379_DS1.pdf (Table 10)