The Risk Factor

In this chapter, The Risk Factor, Bill Bryson is comparing living in the United States as a dangerous place than living in The Great Britain. There are two factors of being killed: the untimely and the accidental. The untimely death is the kind of death that happens normally such choking, heart attacks, and many more. The accidental death is the death caused by car accidents, gun shots, etc.
Bryson labeled America as an outstandingly dangerous place. He supports this by saying, “Every year in New Hampshire a dozen or more people are killed crashing their cars into moose.” These deaths are cause by not paying attention on the roads, not wearing seat belts (40% of the people in this country don’t use a seat belt), and constantly busy with accessories such cell phones, food, etc. He also said Americans tend to use guns often and every year, 40,000 Americans die from gun-shot wounds. He also added, the worst thing that can happen is when children get killed. Children were killed because they were sitting in the front seat and airbags kill them. Yet everybody that is living in this country is being alarmed by all the wrong things.