{"id":16677,"date":"2020-11-12T15:03:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factcheckni.org\/?p=16677"},"modified":"2022-02-26T23:12:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T23:12:51","slug":"is-there-a-greater-chance-of-dying-by-being-hit-by-a-bus-than-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factcheckni.org\/topics\/health\/is-there-a-greater-chance-of-dying-by-being-hit-by-a-bus-than-by-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a greater chance of dying by being hit by a bus than by COVID-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This claim is not accurate. The probability of a randomly selected resident of Great Britain dying from January to October 2020, with COVID-19 mentioned on the death certificate, was over 3,000 times higher than the average probability of dying as a pedestrian in an accident involving a bus or a coach in the same period.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n