When we were considering getting one, I did a fair bit of investigation on the injury rates for tramps. Unfortunately, I didn't keep the information, but the basic conclusion I came to was that they weren't as dangerous as they are often made out to be.
The figures I found indicated something like 100,000 tramp-related injuries in the US per year, which seemed pretty high at first glance. But when I compared these numbers to those related to automobiles, and normalized both numbers based on the number of tramps/cars in the United States, the rates were pretty comparable. Basically, I concluded that if you have both a tramp and a car, the likelihood of ending up in the hospital in a given year due to tramp injuries was about the same as being hospitalized due to a car accident.
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