The rate of fatal car accidents in the US is 11.7 per 100,000 per year. The probability that any one person is going to die of a car accident in the next year is 0.000117.
The odds that one of the 435 US representatives dies in the next year is about 0.04 or 0.05, or 5%. So your right, its not that uncommon. 1 US representative should die in a car crash roughly every 20 years.
Note im not confident in my math here but I did my best. Probabilities were never my strong suit.
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The rate of fatal car accidents in the US is 11.7 per 100,000 per year. The probability that any one person is going to die of a car accident in the next year is 0.000117.
The odds that one of the 435 US representatives dies in the next year is about 0.04 or 0.05, or 5%. So your right, its not that uncommon. 1 US representative should die in a car crash roughly every 20 years.
Note im not confident in my math here but I did my best. Probabilities were never my strong suit.