If you were to take 13000 as a percentage of the population (574000, and you assume that each incident was between two cars with only 1 driver, that would be 1 in 33. If you consider multiple cars in a crash or multiple passangers the number skyrockets to crazy percentages…
Am I the only one who finds this figure absurd?
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Posted by FrostPace
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1 in 33 per year, meaning you’re guaranteed to be in an accident once every 33 years.
Honestly that tracks. my last accident was during covid when someone blew through a stop sign into me. and around 20 years before that when I rear ended someone,
That’s assuming no individual has had more than one crash. I’d assume there’s a certain number of people who drive recklessly and have more than the average and others who have less.
Does it count when someone rams your parked car cause than I’ve been in 3 in the last 3 years MFs!
Yesterday I witnessed my first Maltese pile up 🙂
It was just four cars but still!
There are a few drivers driving that average up.
The argument is flawed. Not defending the road condition of Malta at all – lots of negative from the behaviour of the drivers, the lack of safety involved (tires are considered good as long as it is not burst irrelevant of the age or if they match the other side of the car etc), poor asphalt condition, very dusty roads that become slippery as soap when wet – it’s a mish mash of things. But you have to keep in mind that for starters a good percentage of accidents happen with 1 car (they lose control and wrap around a tree or a barrier), another portion that happen between 2 cars, but 1 is driving the other is stationary/parked, then you get the accidents between 2 cars – which more often than not, involve someone being and idiot and the other driver totally blameless. Of course, you also get those cases where 2 drivers were being idiots and meet each other, and on rare occasions an accident where it was pure lack of luck.
The numbers are high, regardless, but not structured well to deduct that many people cause accidents. As others have mentioned I think you have a select few who have a whole statistic of their own regarding crashes that they’ve caused, others have a couple of accidents to their name even though they did nothing.
Its not absurd, it is by design. Our dear leaders will never push for proper law enforcement as they would be the first ones to be caught red handed. Allow the plebs to break laws that don’t cause too many problems, so that they can break laws that will allow them to get rich. You think the Road Safety Council Chair resigning is coincidence? They were probably there to earn a pay cheque whilst making sure they would never make any changes.
Someone crashed into me at least 1 per year…. always the day when on leave to do some errands -.-
Driving in different countries, I am anxious the most driving in Malta.
Driving above the speed limit and everyone tailgating me, people drive crazy on narrow streets between the villages, which may take only one car in two way road, no one uses indicators, especially in rountabout
the least patient drivers I have ever seen are in Malta.
There is a serious problem here, and it is blamed on uber and bolt drivers, and that’s it.
The least they can do is adding more speed radars and will dramatically reduce accidents, Malta has less than 20 speed radars or something?