Cycling casualties plummet despite rise in numbers
 

And as practically nobody wears a helmet, other factors must be
involved like traffic calming and 20mph zones.

http://www.swldxer.co.uk/safer.jpg

--
Simon Mason

Cycling casualties plummet despite rise in numbers
 

On Mar 31, 6:41*am, Simon Mason wrote:
And as practically nobody wears a helmet, other factors must be
involved like traffic calming and 20mph zones.

http://www.swldxer.co.uk/safer.jpg

Safety in numbers. I agree about the irrelevance of cycle helmets,
though I would hardly use the word "plummet".

"1. Safety According to the Jacobsenís Growth Rule, if the amount of
cycling doubles, the risk per cyclist falls by 34 percent. If cycling
halves, the risk per cyclist increases by 52 percent. Source: Safety
in numbers, more walkers and bicyclists, safer walking and
bicycling,"

PL Jacobsen, Injury Prevention, Sept 2003. (Vandenbulcke et al, 2009).
Cycle Rates by Country."

-- .
A driving licence is sometimes a licence to kill.

Cycling casualties plummet despite rise in numbers
 

On 31/03/2012 06:41, Simon Mason wrote:
And as practically nobody wears a helmet, other factors must be
involved like traffic calming and 20mph zones.

http://www.swldxer.co.uk/safer.jpg

--
Simon Mason
The Porky Chapman Helmet Test.

1] Wear a cycle helmet & allow someone to hit you on the head with a hammer.
2] Repeat, but without wearing the cycle helmet.

Record which one hurts the most & causes most trauma.

‘Just ziz **** you know’ is unable to refute the scientific basis of
this test and seems unwilling to try it on his own head.


--
Dave - Cyclists VOR. "Many people barely recognise the bicycle as a
legitimate mode of transport; it is either a toy for children or a
vehicle fit only for the poor and/or strange," Dave Horton - Lancaster
University

Cycling casualties plummet despite rise in numbers
 

On Apr 4, 1:43*pm, Phil W Lee wrote:
Doug considered Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:47:20 -0700
(PDT) the perfect time to write:





On Mar 31, 6:41*am, Simon Mason wrote:
And as practically nobody wears a helmet, other factors must be
involved like traffic calming and 20mph zones.

http://www.swldxer.co.uk/safer.jpg

Safety in numbers. I agree about the irrelevance of cycle helmets,
though I would hardly use the word "plummet".

"1. Safety According to the Jacobsenís Growth Rule, if the amount of
cycling doubles, the risk per cyclist falls by 34 percent. If cycling
halves, the risk per cyclist increases by 52 percent. Source: Safety
in numbers, more walkers and bicyclists, safer walking and
bicycling,"

PL Jacobsen, Injury Prevention, Sept 2003. (Vandenbulcke et al, 2009).
Cycle Rates by Country."

The impressive thing is that Hull seems to have beaten the safety
improvement rate predicted by that study, and by a considerable
margin.


It is largely due to the 130 odd 20mph zones I reckon.

http://lydall.standard.co.uk/2010/10...ads-safer.html

--
Simon Mason

Cycling casualties plummet despite rise in numbers
 

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:03:07 +0100, Dave - Cyclists VOR wrote:

Porky Chapman

The cyberstalker will claim that the victim is harassing him/her. Bocij
writes that this phenomenon has been noted in a number of well-known
cases.



--
Life is a venereal disease with 100% mortality.

Cycling casualties plummet despite rise in numbers
 

On Apr 6, 2:12*am, Phil W Lee wrote:
Simon Mason considered Thu, 5 Apr 2012 11:59:42
-0700 (PDT) the perfect time to write:





On Apr 4, 1:43*pm, Phil W Lee wrote:
Doug considered Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:47:20 -0700
(PDT) the perfect time to write:

On Mar 31, 6:41*am, Simon Mason wrote:
And as practically nobody wears a helmet, other factors must be
involved like traffic calming and 20mph zones.

http://www.swldxer.co.uk/safer.jpg

Safety in numbers. I agree about the irrelevance of cycle helmets,
though I would hardly use the word "plummet".

"1. Safety According to the Jacobsenís Growth Rule, if the amount of
cycling doubles, the risk per cyclist falls by 34 percent. If cycling
halves, the risk per cyclist increases by 52 percent. Source: Safety
in numbers, more walkers and bicyclists, safer walking and
bicycling,"

PL Jacobsen, Injury Prevention, Sept 2003. (Vandenbulcke et al, 2009)..
Cycle Rates by Country."

The impressive thing is that Hull seems to have beaten the safety
improvement rate predicted by that study, and by a considerable
margin.

It is largely due to the 130 odd 20mph zones I reckon.

http://lydall.standard.co.uk/2010/10...-20mph-zones-d...

It might get even better if they combined them into larger ones.
The eventual aim should be for just one.- Hide quoted text -

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They keep getting rolled out year after year and so in time all of the
residential areas will become 20mph as a default speed limit.

--
Simon Mason