# Tyson Gay (Olympic runner) 15 year old daughter shot and killed.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-gay-olympic-runner-15-year-old-daughter-shot-and-killed/768792>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 17, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-gay-olympic-runner-15-year-old-daughter-shot-and-killed/768792 "2016-10-17T00:08:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-gay-olympic-runner-15-year-old-daughter-shot-and-killed/768792/21 "2016-10-18T23:53:39Z")

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> [@PastTense](#):
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> Why not also the mother?

Because my Daughter’s Mother is/was too mentally ill to understand or accept the fact that our daughter was dead by murder.  
So, since I have no knowledge or information about the Mother in this case I don’t feel bad about looking at it as the loss for the Father. That I know a lot about…  
That was why I used both words. They mean different things.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-gay-olympic-runner-15-year-old-daughter-shot-and-killed/768792/22 "2016-10-19T14:28:59Z")

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> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#):
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> I think this is one of those cases where common intuition is wrong. It’s probably safer to be out at 3 or 4am than in the middle of the day. But when you consider only the scary dangers of crime, and not the mundane danger of being hit by a car, it feels more dangerous.

These [stats](http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/21/car-accident-times-forbeslife-cx_he_0121driving_slide_2.html?thisspeed=25000)say different:

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> But the hours between midnight and 4 a.m. have the highest number of fatalities when calculated as a percentage of the amount of people on the road, according to AAA. During that time, statistically speaking, 5.87 per 100 million people on the road will be killed.

In absolute numbers daytime accidents claim more lives, but the night is statistically a more dangerous time to ride.

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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-gay-olympic-runner-15-year-old-daughter-shot-and-killed/768792/23 "2016-10-19T16:21:02Z")

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> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#):
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> In absolute numbers daytime accidents claim more lives, but the night is statistically a more dangerous time to ride.

Good call. I stand corrected.

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