Originally Posted by
njkayaker
It might be helpful to see the references to these. A summary that included the basic circumstances and the country/state/location where the event supposedly happened.
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Originally Posted by
njkayaker
While touring, I think you are much, much more likely to die in an accident involving a car. If you think that this risk is acceptable, I would not worry about the other risk (certainly, be careful).
Having done both, I suspect that this statement is pretty true for both activities. Perhaps less so for hitching, but probably not as much as you would think.
I will qualify this by saying that while I have hitchhiked thousands of miles it was a long time ago.