According to this: http://top10hell.com/top-10-countries-with-most-bicycles-per-capita/ http://top10hell.com/top-10-countries-with-most-bicycles-per... (no idea

According to this: http://top10hell.com/top-10-countries-with-most-bicycles-per-capita/ http://top10hell.com/top-10-countries-with-most-bicycles-per... (no idea about veracity of that data), Netherlands claimed 16.5 million cyclists cycling 2.5 km/day on average; compared to US with 100 million bicyclists cycling an average of 0.1 km/day. So if we assume those numbers are right that gives 200 deaths in Netherlands for 15,000 million km cycled per year (16.5 * 2.5 * 365) ; versus US where there were 677 deaths for 3,650 million km (100 * 0.1 * 365). This makes cycling in US 25 times a dangerous as Netherlands: Netherlands has 1 death per 75 million km cycled while US has a fatality every 5.3 km. In comparison, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in... says 1.16 fatalities for cars per 100 million vehicle miles travelled, so one death every 86 million kilometers -- safer than cycling in Netherlands by distance, much safer than cycling. Another page with similar calculations: http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/734/cycling/cycling-rates-by-country/ http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/734/cycling/cycling-rates-by-c... shows 5.8 cyclists killed per 100 million km cycled in US, versus 1.1 in Netherlands.