HOW DANGEROUS IS CYCLING? DEPENDS ON WHICH NUMBERS YOU EMPHASISE.

On Mon, 20 May 2019 08:35:05 +0700, John B.
wrote:

On Sun, 19 May 2019 21:04:04 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 5/19/2019 3:31 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 5/19/2019 2:00 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 5/19/2019 11:44 AM, jbeattie wrote:

Uh oh, bicycles are suicide machines in the EU!
Particularly where there is developed bicycle
infrastructure. https://tinyurl.com/y4r935l4 NL is like
the killing fields.

The author serves a few tidbits of real knowledge in a stew
of misinformation.

I'd be interested in his source for "In the U.S., as in
Europe, the car’s culpability is mostly a myth: just 29
per cent of bicycle fatalities involved autos." I think
that's completely wrong.



As measured by actual court decisions or merely by a disinterested
omniscient being?

I can see different conclusions drawn using different filters/methods.

I'm not talking about the culpability part. I'm talking about the claim
that just 29 percent involved autos at all.

Even if the cyclist were riding at night with no lights going the wrong
way and killed himself by riding into a car that was barely moving, that
fatality would still involve an auto.

You are straining just a bit there, aren't you? What about a parked
auto? Or even an abandoned auto with no wheels?

But I did come across some statistics that might be of interest. From
CYCLING FACTS, Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis
(KIM)

Total numbers of bicycle deaths as percent of total Road Deaths - 30%
Total numbers of motor car/truck deaths as percent of total road
deaths- 39%
Total percent of serious road injuries as bicycle-auto collisions-
11%
Total percent of serious road injuries as bicycle - without auto
collisions - 52%


Added:
There was no correlation between bicycle deaths and bicycle-motor
vehicle collisions. There were two charts, one labeled "Fatalities"
and the second "Serious Injuries". There was a reference to a study
"40 Schepers, P. et al. (2017), \u201cBicycle fatalities: trends in
crashes with and without motor vehicles in The Netherlands.\u201d
Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour 46:
491-499." the abstract of which is at
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...69847816300699
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cheers,

John B.