4% increase in cyclist incidents, 7% reduction in car incidents. BBC currently running it on a large news topic.
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These road safety figures
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linkage ??
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so cars hitting cyclists instead of other cars?
be careful out there.
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Cant find linkage, even searching BBC. Think it is too new. Will keep looking
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DO they mean 4% more peds injured by bikers - how bad does it have to be to count ? Bugger all + 4% = bugger all
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Linkage - probably mostly riding hardtails to be honest.
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A function of more people cycling? be my guess
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Thanks Lifer, well found.
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Hmmmmmmmmm :
DfT casualties by scaredypants, on FlickrMind,
However, the total number of reported pedal cycle casualties rose by 4 per cent, and the
number killed or seriously injured rose by 8 per cent compared to the 12 month period ending
September 2010Posted 3 months ago # -
Scaredy,I'm missing your point
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no point really - thinking aloud, but the 4% rise in bike incidents is on top of a quite low (still unacceptable !) number whereas the 7% drop in car incidents still leaves a big number
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Would be interesting to know how the DFT classified a cycling incident - how (if at all) are they distinguishing between a cyclist injured on a road journey and one injured on a trail or a bmx track?
By the same measure when am I a pedestrian on a journey and when am I just walking around. If I'm walking to the shops and I'm hit by a car I'd imagine I'd be included in those figures above. But what if on the same journey I trip over my shoelaces and break my neck - I'm still a pedestrian on a journey but I doubt DFT would register that
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how (if at all) are they distinguishing between a cyclist injured on a road journey and one injured on a trail or a bmx track?
I'd take a guess that they'd have no way of collecting data from trail/bmx track injuries.
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"Incidents" also perhaps not the same as "casualties".
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If it's anything like how the "class" Motorcycle accidents then it's a load of b*llocks!
Serious injury in a Car/Van/etc - where hospital TREATMENT is required amounting to an overnight stay or longer.
Serious injury on a Motorcycle - where hospital VISIT is required amounting to a stay over 4hrs[u] regardless of whether there was treatment or not.
How the hell is that the same?
I bet a large number of those cyclists may well be manhole/pothole/ice/etc incidents with no other person/vehicle involved but will be included to "beef up" the figures.
After all - there are Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics..........Posted 3 months ago # -
Actually potholes could be part of it, they've been getting worse and worse
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I seem to recall from another thread the other day that the last year of reported deaths showed a nasty looking increase in cyclists deaths but was still the second lowest on record, as the previous year was the lowest.
Obviously, any deaths and injury are a tragedy and should be avoided, but lots of colleagues have been commenting on an increase in numbers of cyclists and whether this is a factor
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