An injury every 1.6m miles isn't amazing. That is almost a 1/3 lifetime chance of injury if you drive an average of 12k miles annually for 50 years. (Sidenote: human units are easier to read).
The old "look at the person to your left, now look to the person on your right" meme comes to mind. One of you will probably have an accident with an injury in your lifetime.
I ran the same calculation for dying in a car accident and got a lifetime probability of 0.7%, but I'm not sure I did it right.
A comment I wrote 3 years ago has more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26950254
The old "look at the person to your left, now look to the person on your right" meme comes to mind. One of you will probably have an accident with an injury in your lifetime.
I ran the same calculation for dying in a car accident and got a lifetime probability of 0.7%, but I'm not sure I did it right.