How dangerous is soaring?

Number of fatalies and serious injuries per year divided
by the number of participants. I don't think horse
riders are required to log their time in the saddle!


Incidentally, actor Christopher Reeves (aka Superman)
was an active glider pilot, but was paralysed from
the neck down and ultimately died at an early age as
the direct result of a horse riding accident. I guess
that sort of proves my point on a non statistically
significant sample of 1.

Del C

At 14:12 03 November 2007, Andy wrote:
On Nov 3, 5:07 am, Del C wrote
Gliding is actually statistically considerably safer
than Horse Riding,
which does not generally seem to be regarded as risky.

What are the horse riding statistics and what are they
based on based
on? Hours in the saddle or something else? Do horse
riders log and
report the hours they ride to some controlling authority
that compiles
the statistics? Are the statistics broken down into
the many types of
horse riding?

I suspect there is very poor data on the time exposure
to most of the
risks that kill people, except of course total hours
lived prior to
the fatal event.

Andy