CotterPin
Senior Member
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.
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.
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.