> for the average person.

For the average horse rider perhaps but not the average person. Most people were never on a horse.

if enough people on horses fall off and die, the average could still win over the population. I don't have the original statistic I saw in front of me, but that's how I interpreted it.

and in agricultural times in the US, I'd say most people were on horses.

> in agricultural times in the US, I'd say most people were on horses.

But most people weren't riding them. A horse and cart is much more efficient.

I wonder if this is more a wild west pulp fiction meme, than actual reality. A lot of people today are collateral damage of cars, getting maimed, mutilated, crippled, killed, it's pretty indiscriminatory, drivers and bystanders alike suffer its consequences. It's hard to believe horses had the same blast radius proportionally speaking.