13 year old girl dies from hockey puck

[HfdWolfPack]

Here is why I never sit in row k or above at the Civic center with my son.

Girl Dies

tragic

[Pshawn5]

yeah i read that too..very sad...it's like the first time that someone has died at the pro level of nhl

[Chooco]

i always wondered if people ever got hurt from when they shoot pucks over the glass...... maybe that's why you get a penalty for doing it

btw do people ever get killed from baseballs hit into the stands at a baseball game? they are pretty hard and they travel at over 100mph....

[S.D.Willie]

definitely a sad sad day for that girls family. knutsen's a good guy from what ive heard too. such a shame.

[Sweet]

Poor child. That's so sad.

At the end of the article, it says 5 people have died from baseballs.

I love hockey!! Only been to 1 game so far. I usually don't have to worry about the puck coming through the tv.....

[HfdWolfPack]

Not sure Chooco, but I remember getting hit with a line drive right above my eye while pitching to my dad. He is a pretty strong guy, but the ball only gave me a nice shiner and a headache.

( I was 11 years old and remember that like it was yesterday)


Baseballs are hard, but hockey pucks are solid frozen rubber.

[HfdWolfPack]

Not to get off topic, but...

Sweet -
that reminds me of the intro to Ranger games they show a puck being shot right into the camera lens.....it comes hard and fast. You can see that there is not much time to move out of the way.

[Chooco]

yup pucks are brutal

i used to play hockey until i was 12, the coach always lets his kid play every friggin shift....... scam
on that team i had the third most points and the coach's kid had the second least because he was smaller than everybody else and not fast to make up for it.....

sad story

[Warthog]

Yeah but the odds of you dieing by getting hit from a hockey puck are probably greater than dieing in an airplane or.

[Chooco]

lol dude the odds are actualy greater of dying in a plane crash

there has been more than 1 death in planes before

[brandon184]

Guess what? The odds of being killed in your car are SUBSTANTIALLY higher than being killed in a plane crash.

[Chooco]

screw that dude!

how much time do you think a person spends in a car before that person dies?

now how what do you think the crash/time/person is on a plane? probably higher

[sharder8]

I agree that is a very sad accident!

I played goal when I was young, I started in goal before they even had face protection. I remember getting hit in the head many times. (Maybe that's part of my problem! )

Harder

[Warthog]

Well DUH you spend more time in a plane. But, statistically, you could fly a plane everyday for years and never, ever crash.

Car wrecks.....let see, nearly all my friends have either totaled their car or gotten into SOME sort of wreck or another in the past 1 1/2 years.

[Chooco]

have any of your friends died though?

lets say you spend 3 hours per week in your car (take the bus to work and just cruise around i guess) how long would it take before you die? both my parents and my bro are still alive and they are not too young....

if they had spent this much time in a plane they probably would have died by now

[Warthog]

Public transportation is much safer.

Hey, don't argue with me. It's a known fact. Start a thread on it if you like.

The FACT is, everyone owns a car and NOT everyone knows how to drive.

Ok, screw this....here you go:
http://www.snopes2.com/science/stats/donkey.htm
"Other activities are far more likely to lead to loss of life, but because the death tolls associated with them mount up more slowly -- only a body or two at a time -- we are not dramatically reminded of this fact in the same way the dangers of flying are brought home to us when we snap open our morning newspapers and are confronted with the news of another plane crash. Automobile accidents resulting in loss of life occur every day, but we gloss over recognition of the number of car-crash deaths because the information comes in dribs and drabs. The annual figures of automobile accident fatalities never carry as much impact as a single front-page headline of an airplane crash that claimed hundreds of lives."

Odds of being on an airline flight which results in at least one fatality:
Top 25 airlines with the best records
1 in 4.2 million

Bottom 25 airlines with the worst records
1 in 186,000

That is 4.2 million and 186k flights. You can't fly that many times in a LIFETIME, even everyday.

Odds of being killed on a single airline flight
Top 25 airlines with the best records
1 in 12.4 million

Bottom 25 airlines with the worst records
1 in 251,000

The above is from here: http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm

Now for car info:
http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/research/ann...000/intro.html



THERE, does that finish this discussion? lol

In conclusion, you are much more likely to die or be injured in an automobile crash than in any other form of transportation.

I would even go as far to say that you are more likely to be injured during mating than in an airline incident.

Warthog

[Chooco]

4.2 million flights all together though

there are probably at least 50 million people in cars in the US during rush hour, would you assume that MORE THAN 4.2/50 of them will die?

can you really say that 8.4% of the driving population in the US will die every 4 hours or so of driving?

[Warthog]

can you really say that 8.4% of the driving population in the US will die every 4 hours or so of driving?

Statistics are just that: statistics, not guaranteed. BUT they are based on actual results. Injurie and not death can be just as bad - losing legs, being confined to a wheel chair,etc.,etc.

This is worthless. I don't know why I continue. Look at the above numbers, man.....I bet if you saw every single car accident, even in your state/county, on the news, you'd think twice......

No offense but you are truly ignorant if you don't realize the danger of automobiles.

[S.D.Willie]

yikes, did anyone forget the topic?

[surreal]

That's a really sad story.

I guess I was lucky. I lived at the hocky rink going to every AAA game for 2 seasons. I got hit in the head with a stick once. It was a fight, and one guy took another guys stick and threw it.. That had none of the velocity of a puck. I just hope the parents didn't delay in taking the girl to the hospitial..