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In the UK, cyclists are responsible for between 2 and 3 pedestrian deaths each year. The total number of people killed on UK roads in the year to June 2020 was
by ranko 5y ago
In the UK, cyclists are responsible for between 2 and 3 pedestrian deaths each year. The total number of people killed on UK roads in the year to June 2020 was 1580 (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/956524/road-casualties-year-ending-june-2020.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...). This suggests that motorists directly kill about as many people in a morning as cyclists do in a year, and that's ignoring deaths caused by pollution.
- Arnt 5y ago2-3 seems surprisingly high to me, considering the small mass and low speed of most cyclists. Can you describe the most common classes of such accidents? I realise how odd it sounds weird to ask about 2-3 when car drivers cause a four-digit number.
- atatatat 5y agoGo get hit by a bicycle at 10+ MPH and see how many times you're left disabled.
- Arnt 5y agoWell, a bicycle plus rider is about 100kg, which is a tenth of an old-fashioned car or closer to a twentieth of a SUV, so that should correspond roughly to getting hit by a car at about 1MPH. I'm not awfully worried about cars moving at 1MPH, and correspondingly unworried about bicycles. You may disagree. Do you happen to drive a car? At 1MPH, or faster?