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by n1231231231234 2782 days ago
Actually, OP's figures are pretty much backed up by the figures you get when googling this question.

Chances to die of a car crash/ any kind of vehicle crash is about 1 in 100 according to here [0].

I can't find something similar straight away for injuries, but car accidents are ubiquitous and 2m people are injured every year (vs 30k fatalities) [1; cached]. So something above >20% seems plausible.

[0]: https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortalit... [1]: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dnqo-l...

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Some UK figures here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/oct/28/mortal...

mortality due to transport accidents / total deaths = ~2000 / ~500000 ~= 1/250 or 0.4%