Quite a Shocking Article

[Psyclist]

This article I read online here. I didn't realise it was that bad. One reason I avoid riding on main roads and dual carriage ways etc.

Take care on the roads everybody.

 

[PpPete]

Your link is to a .jpg not an article.

 

[Psyclist]

Your link is to a .jpg not an article.

Thanks for the heads up. I edited it.

 

[PpPete]

Following the links though...

Though the chances of being injured or killed while cycling are very low — there are only 22.4 deaths for every billion kilometres cycled on UK roads

Anyone know the equivalent number for car drivers/passengers?

 

[Eribiste]

It is somewhat sobering, this. Vigilence and visibility everyone, and safe, happy riding.

 

[Hip Priest]

Sobering, but put it in perspective. You could put up a list of people who've been killed as a result of diabetes or cardiovascular disease that'd stretch into the millions, yet I don't get nervous about eating crisps.

 

[HLaB]

Sobering stuff indeed, the benefits of cycling in terms of health may outweigh loss of life by 20 to 1 but when you are that 1

 

[Accy cyclist]

I read the fatalities list, it's sobering thought! When i'm out cycling i'm more concerned about the impact my death or serious injury would have on my family, rather than being concerned about me too much.

 

[RWright]

I am going to guess the number of pedestrians killed is much higher. It can happen to anyone. Sad nonetheless.

 

[Drago]

Applying statistics to ones own personal situation is not always sensible. I'm very experience, highly qualified and properly cautious and have no qualms about riding big roads and I'm and its generally noted by people I meet as to how not dead I am.

 

[mickle]

I do wish they'd stop reporting that 'The driver was uninjured'. Of course the driver was uninjured - they were driving a farking car!

 

[mr_hippo]

I have never slept in a bed for years; I sleep on a blanket on the floor. A lot more people die in their sleep in a bed rather than on a blanket on the Floor!.

 

[srw]

Following the links though...

Anyone know the equivalent number for car drivers/passengers?

Have a search for something that User1314 posted in the Campaigning forum. Off the top of my head, the figures for deaths for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers/passengers are very similar indeed per hour, and pretty similar per kilometre. Cycling is far more likely to result in a trip to hospital than other modes of transport, but most of those of trips to hospital result in nothing more than a quick burst of treatment - certainly nothing life-changing. And there are Dutch stats (I think I saw them courtesy of Pedrosanchezo's witterings in the helmet forum) which say that 4 out of 5 cycling incidents resulting in a hospital trip involved no other road user.

In the context of 2,000,000 regular cyclists and increasing, 120 deaths is a tiny risk. The roads certainly could be safer (and are getting safer), and there are elementary precautions such as not going inside lorries that individuals can take. But in the grand scheme of things cycling is incredibly safe.

 

[srw]

Applying statistics to ones own personal situation is not always sensible. I'm very experience, highly qualified and properly cautious and have no qualms about riding big roads and I'm and its generally noted by people I meet as to how not dead I am.

I'd say that you have very effectively applied the statistics to your own personal situation...

 

[Drago]

Am I in a coma, am I dead, or have I gone back in time?