You know how you always hear that flying somewhere is even safer than driving there? Flying certainly looks a lot more dangerous. And actually, if you live in a city as I do, riding a bike looks more dangerous than driving. Especially if you're on that bike. Well, here are the actual statistics. There are all sorts of interesting things to be gleaned from this table, not the least of which is that flying is 141 times safer than driving. Is talking about all these ways to get killed too morbid for a Thing of the Week? (You can e-mail your opinion to me.)

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                U.S. TRANSPORTATION     EXPRESSED IN DEATHS
                FATALILITIES IN 1992    PER 100 MILLION MILES
			

Commercial air         31                      0.006
Bus                    28                      0.022
Rapid transit rail     10                      0.029
Car                21,366                      0.849
Truck               8,767                      0.898
Bicycle               722                     21.235
Motorcycle          2,394                     22.909
Pedestrian          5,546                     84.030

(From the New York Times)