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you are looking at the equation wrong man.
lets say 1 million people drive per day. out of that 1 million 20k people die from accidents.
now lets say out of that 1 million people driving there are 20k people street racing. Of those 20k people street racing 12k of them died.
now lets look at the numbers. 20k people of 1 million is a lesser percentage of people dying than the 12k of the 20k.
how is this possible??? because more people that are driving...albeit safely or dangerously, there are simply more people. this makes the risk factor actually less than those that are actually taking the larger risk of which more people get seriously hurt or caused death from the more dangerous activity.
whens the last time you heard ''oh they were street racing and it resulted in a minor fender bender.'' almost never...because a higher percentage of those that crash street racing are caught in serious life threatening accidents. those that were speeding (say 65 in a 55) have a better chance of surviving someone clipping your back end.
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