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> a 90kg human on a 10kg bike going 15mph Sure, it's not a car crash but this is still equivalent to someone throwing a full bodyweight punch which can easily
by throwaway4aday 4y ago
> a 90kg human on a 10kg bike going 15mph
Sure, it's not a car crash but this is still equivalent to someone throwing a full bodyweight punch which can easily knock you unconscious and kill you when your head bounces off the pavement.
- afandian 4y agoI've been hit by a cyclist whilst walking on a pedestrian pavement ('sidewalk' in American). I was OK, but my child wouldn't have been.
- bombcar 4y agoI suspect the vast majority of cyclist/pedestrian accidents never get reported because most of them don't result in broken bones, etc (e.g, the bicyclist tried to stop or the pedestrian noticed at the last minute, injuries reduced to scrapes and bruises).
- avianlyric 4y agoNo saying it’s good. Just saying that many places are perfectly comfortable making pedestrians contend with much more deadly conditions, but seemed to get a little hysterical when a bike is involved. Something to consider, in the UK, a pedestrian is killed once every year or two by bikes, and it’s front page news with public outrage. a pedestrian is killed once everyday, on average, by cars (it’s actual a little higher, but close enough), but it’s never news, and there’s never outrage. Pedestrian injuries and deaths by bikes are so low, government basically doesn’t really consider it worth the effort to collect the data. It’s far easier to derive bike caused pedestrian fatalities from counting news articles, than it is to use official stats, because the stats basically don’t exist.