“Well this shows that the mishap rate was so low that it didn’t discourage the traffic. Don’t the users have a say in what risk they wish to undertake?”
Stupid comment. The riders didn’t know the risk.
They knew it wasn’t on the news. So your comment is the unthinking one.
Also a little Googling would have shown the experience to that day.
It’s just too bad for nanny you that it took 13 years before anybody died on it.