The future of taking a crew?

[Rayjay3110]

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Commission, 37,461 people died from automobile accidents in 2016, 32,999 in 2010. I'm sure you can check most any year if interested, I just asked SIRI.

[GordMay]

Originally Posted by geoleo

Are you sure 31500 people get killed every day by cars in the USA?? That's 11 and a half million a year.11497500.

The global epidemic of road crash fatalities and disabilities is gradually being recognized as a major public health concern. The first step to being informed about global road safety and to developing effective road safety interventions is to have access to facts.

Annual Global Road Crash Statistics
Approximately 1.35 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,700 people lose their lives every day on the roads.
An additional 20-50 million suffer non-fatal injuries, often resulting in long-term disabilities.
More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among vulnerable road users—pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists.
Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among young people aged 5-29. Young adults aged 15-44 account for more than half of all road deaths.
More than 90% of all road fatalities occur in low- and middle-income countries, even though these countries have approximately 60% of the world’s vehicles.
On average, road crashes cost countries 3% of their gross domestic product.
Road crashes are the single greatest annual cause of death of healthy U.S. citizens traveling abroad.

Annual United States Road Crash Statistics
More than 38,000 people die every year in crashes on U.S. roadways. The U.S. traffic fatality rate is 12.4 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
An additional 4.4 million are injured seriously enough to require medical attention.
Road crashes are the leading cause of death in the U.S. for people aged 1-54.
The economic and societal impact of road crashes costs U.S. citizens $871 billion.
Road crashes cost the U.S. more than $380 million in direct medical costs.
The U.S. suffers the most road crash deaths of any high-income country, about 50% higher than similar countries in Western Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan.
Pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities continue to rise in the United States. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more pedestrians and cyclists were killed in 2018 than in any year since 1990.

[Discovery 15797]

Sorry folks, I'm missing the connection between traffic fatalities and finding /screening crew post epidemic.

Perhaps there is a link regarding the statistical probability of the arrival of a new crew mate to the boat via automobile???

[Montanan]

Originally Posted by Discovery 15797

Sorry folks, I'm missing the connection between traffic fatalities and finding /screening crew post epidemic.

Perhaps there is a link regarding the statistical probability of the arrival of a new crew mate to the boat via automobile???

There is no connection between traffic fatalities and crew selection.

But one might which to perform the basic background checks on all crew persons for things like suspended drivers licenses, arrests, DUI's, etc. as an indicator of their responsibleness. It takes but a short time and does not cost much to screen strangers.

In the future, yellow cards may become the new norm.

As someone astutely posted earlier, when you take on crew, they become the vessel master's responsibility, so yes there are prospective employer practice liabilities and duties. Medical care and costs, incidentals in provision of repatriation [travel, lodging, meals] being yet another, and the prosect of imposition of quarantine periods. Given the tenuousness of travel restrictions, one or more of the crew could be banned from a port of entry, or the entire vessel, which could require the vessel to return to its country of nationality [its flagged nation]. All to often yachties don't recognize or know the scope and nature of the master's responsibilities for each of their passengers and crew. There is a remarkable ignorance, naivete and casualness of yachties as to the burden of responsibility of ownership and command of a vessel. It behooves yachties to learn the maritime law and employer law matters, but just as many persons don't even learn the Colregs or UNCLOS, they also remain clueless about the issues of boarding passengers and crew, or the legal distinguishment between passenger and crew.