5-Mile Rule -Dumbest Thing They've Come Up With Yet!

Somebody told me that there is a statistic that states "75% of auto accidents occur within 5 miles of your home." Who came up with this bit of cockamamie?! Let's take a good look at this, shall we?

First of all, 95% of accidents that occur on the road, involve at least two vehicles -on a worldwide scale, what are the odds that both parties live within 5 miles of the accident? You stand a good chance of losing 50% of your odds right there!

And what about when you're driving in the mountains and get hit by a moose? Odds are at least 50% that he lives within 5 miles of the scene -but you? What were you doing up there in the first place? Do you file that as an "uninsured second party?"

Government studies show the statistics might lean toward these findings, but what idiot put the government in charge of this? Oh, yeah, the "Votary Public," I forgot. So, somebody got a government grant -YOUR tax dollars, hard at work, so that they could come to this insipid conclusion?

I'll tell you the truth -and I won't even charge you for it! The reason that anybody might have a greater chance of getting in an auto accident within five miles of their residence, has nothing to do with "carelessness," as the statisticians seem to intimate, but the simple fact involved is "frequency."

You drive within those five miles ninety-five percent of the time you are driving! It's that simple. If you drive anywhere, that often, the odds are that, if you get in an accident (heaven forbid) THAT's where it's gonna happen!