Fascinating factoid from this month’s Scientific American – rural U.S. residents are more likely to die from injury than urban residents.
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23886781
A common perception is that big cities are scary dangerous places, but it’s not statistically accurate. But I wonder how the numbers change is you remove auto accident deaths which are probably very much higher in rural US? (I didn’t read the article, just the abstract)
On the other hand, there would still be tractors, implements, corn silos, poisons, trees, junk piles, old barns, lightning, chainsaws, bulls, horses, hunters, bears, cougars, crazed raccoons …