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If you read the actual study it actually shows smaller vehicles hit bicyclist more often than SUVs by a large margin. But that SUVs cause more harm when they ar
by explorer83 3y ago
If you read the actual study it actually shows smaller vehicles hit bicyclist more often than SUVs by a large margin. But that SUVs cause more harm when they are hit. So SUVs actually hit less bicyclists.
- akira2501 3y agoYou have to ask how does anyone arrive at a "55% more trauma" figure? I can see from the study they just tallied up ICD codes. This is not a particularly rigorous examination of the facts. Also from the page containing the study: > Fatal bicycle crash rates have risen dramatically over the past decade. In 2020, 932 bicyclists were killed on U.S. roads, up from a low of 621 in 2010. One reason may be the dominance of pickups and SUVs in the U.S. vehicle fleet. Another reason is that there are more bicycles on the road over the last 10 years. Not an unimaginable phenomenon. Giving per capita data here would be far more useful in the analysis. New York's estimates[1] seem to suggest that more than twice the number of people are bicycling over this 10 year period. Yet, there's less than a doubling in the fatality rate. I don't find much of this conclusive. [1]: https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/cyclinginthecity.shtml https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/cyclinginthecit...
- explorer83 3y agoIt's not conclusive whatsoever but look how many people are jumping on the anti-SUV bandwagon over this poor study.