Foggy math in San Francisco

I was searching for San Francisco tsunami news this morning and stumbled across a story in the San Francisco Examiner about a moronic but very lucky high school kid who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and survived with just some bruises.

The article contains this passage:

The teen joins more than 1,400 others who have jumped from the bridge since it opened in 1937, according to the Golden Gate Bridge transit district. Of those, only 2 percent survived, and only 4 percent of those who survived were able to walk again.

The purpose of the paragraph is to show that surviving the plunge without dying or becoming paralyzed is very rare. Mission accomplished, right?

Technically, but I did the math, and 4 percent of 2 percent of 1,400 people is ... one person. That paragraph would have been way better if it said, "The teen is only the second person ever to jump off the bridge without dying or becoming paralyzed." In fact, isn't that such an interesting fact that you'd probably lead with it?

No wonder they can't get anyone to pay for the Examiner these days.