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How many pedestrians are killed by bicycles in the US every year?

gibolt 5y ago
Certainly, significantly less than bikers killed by drivers. Bikes and pedestrians are low-speed, low momentum, and low likelihood impacts.
- milkytron 5y ago
  I was walking in town this past weekend and someone in my group accidentally bumped into another pedestrian that was walking by in the crosswalk. It was the most harmless thing and actually kind of funny because they were both caught off guard and immediately started apologizing to each other. Just goes to show how severe a pedestrian impact can be, be careful out there.
PaulHoule 5y ago
This guy https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a32257789/vehicular-cycling-advocate-john-forester-dies-at-90/ https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a32257789/vehicular-cyclin... published some stats back in the 1980s that pointed to remarkable high risks from hitting pedestrians, parked cars, other bicycles, dogs, and everything other than the fantasy cyclists have that a driver is going to crash into them from behind either from obliviousness or as a hate crime. (My worst bicycle accident was when I was riding in a thunderstorm at 1 am had no visibility and hit a parked car.) He was influenced by the dangerous bike lanes of San Luis Obispo and experiences in California and the Northeast. More recent statistics seem to show that drivers in the U.S. South are astonishingly bad and really do crash into cyclists from behind.
- Jtsummers 5y ago
  > More recent statistics seem to show that drivers in the U.S. South are astonishingly bad and really do crash into cyclists from behind. Yes, I stopped road biking because of them. I'd deliberately stay in the shoulder (just right of the white line) and they'd swerve into the shoulder next to me. At times they also crossed into the oncoming traffic lane to fuck with me. Not a pleasant experience to share the road with those morons.

Certainly, significantly less than bikers killed by drivers. Bikes and pedestrians are low-speed, low momentum, and low likelihood impacts.

milkytron 5y ago
I was walking in town this past weekend and someone in my group accidentally bumped into another pedestrian that was walking by in the crosswalk. It was the most harmless thing and actually kind of funny because they were both caught off guard and immediately started apologizing to each other. Just goes to show how severe a pedestrian impact can be, be careful out there.

PaulHoule 5y ago

This guy https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a32257789/vehicular-cycling-advocate-john-forester-dies-at-90/ https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a32257789/vehicular-cyclin... published some stats back in the 1980s that pointed to remarkable high risks from hitting pedestrians, parked cars, other bicycles, dogs, and everything other than the fantasy cyclists have that a driver is going to crash into them from behind either from obliviousness or as a hate crime. (My worst bicycle accident was when I was riding in a thunderstorm at 1 am had no visibility and hit a parked car.) He was influenced by the dangerous bike lanes of San Luis Obispo and experiences in California and the Northeast. More recent statistics seem to show that drivers in the U.S. South are astonishingly bad and really do crash into cyclists from behind.

Jtsummers 5y ago
> More recent statistics seem to show that drivers in the U.S. South are astonishingly bad and really do crash into cyclists from behind. Yes, I stopped road biking because of them. I'd deliberately stay in the shoulder (just right of the white line) and they'd swerve into the shoulder next to me. At times they also crossed into the oncoming traffic lane to fuck with me. Not a pleasant experience to share the road with those morons.