"Killer" bikes

[CotterPin]

The 7/7 London bombings may have resulted in a “second wave” of casualties on the roads as people switched from the tube to travelling by bicycle, psychiatrists believe.

Prof Peter Ayton, from City University, who led the study, said: “People avoided things in which large numbers of people were killed at one time and switched to what looked like more innocent methods of travel like bicycling.
“But if you asked which killed more people ion the last 10 years in London, international terrorism, or bicycles, the answer would definitely be bicycles."

There is possibly something in this (I seem to recall a similar case made after 9/11 when people switched to driving rather than taking domestic flights in the US). However the reporting is astoundingly bad. The comments are worth reading though.

 

[Will1985]

Bicycles don't kill cyclists.

 

[garrilla]

Bicycles don't kill cyclists.

Rabbits do. I saw it on a documentary on BBC2.

 

[2Loose]

Rabbits do. I saw it on a documentary on BBC2.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

 

[thomas]

Bicycles don't kill cyclists.

My bike looked like it'd killed someone this morning. I cut my finger last night and it bled all over my drops and brake lever on my ride this morning .

I had to wipe it all off, otherwise I thought I'd get to my bike to find the police processing it

 

[Will1985]

Rabbits do. I saw it on a documentary on BBC2.

Was Chris Moyles narrating?

I can't even find any mentions of bikes being a cause of death on the Darwin Awards site.

 

[garrilla]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

No, a play on Goldy Looking Chains' Guns Don't Kill People (Rappers Do)

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv-2XYOtgCg

 

[Origamist]

I'm hoping the Telegraph have done the Prof an injustice with that article as it ludicrous in its current form.

 

[Will1985]

No, a play on Goldy Looking Chains' Guns Don't Kill People (Rappers Do)

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv-2XYOtgCg

Haven't you heard the Radio 1 cover? (Mouldy Looking Stain)

 

[palinurus]

Time for a war on cycling. It'd help with my hardman outlaw-type image.

 

[dellzeqq]

As Origamist says. (Were you doing that R5 thing this morning - I was impressed!). The more cyclists the safer the individual cyclist. London cyclists are safer than those elsewhere in the country. Deaths have not risen, despite a near doubling of the number of cyclists. And so on, and so on............

And if you look at the way people, both cyclists and pedestrians are killed in London, there are certain standout, addressable, characteristics. Which the prof didn't uncover because he didn't look

 

[dellzeqq]

should we refer him to the CTC's 'Safety in Numbers' campaign?

 

[Davidc]

should we refer him to the CTC's 'Safety in Numbers' campaign?

And any one of the many excellent text books on research design and methodology

 

[sheddy]

Twas sloppy reporting by ITV London tonight. Announcer said 214 extra deaths...

 

[garrilla]

Haven't you heard the Radio 1 cover? (Mouldy Looking Stain)

Ni, I must have missed that.

I think the last Moyles parody I heard was Totally Addicted to Plaice as I'm just not a R1 type person since I grew an an extra decade.