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"Bicycles can kill pedestrians..." I tried to look up the injury code and didn't really get any statistics on people killed by bicyclists. Do you have any furt
by kisstheblade 11y ago
"Bicycles can kill pedestrians..."
I tried to look up the injury code and didn't really get any statistics on people killed by bicyclists. Do you have any further information?
Bicyclists running red lights never kill anybody (other than maybe the cyclist).
Bicyclists going too fast and too close to pedestrians (red lights or not) can injure pedestrians, but that has nothing to do with "obeying the law", rather it just tells that those people don't consider other people (and we can be lucky they were on a bike and not in car, right?).
I mean really, a cyclist running a red light in an empty crossing (after stopping and seeing that the crossing is clear) is some kind of danger to anybody? Suddenly getting to fast enough speeds after take off to kill someone??
- protomyth 11y ago> Bicyclists running red lights never kill anybody (other than maybe the cyclist). http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/03/12/bicyclist-sentenced-to-probation-in-fatal-sf-embarcadero-crash/ http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/03/12/bicyclist-senten... and I think this link made HN http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/bicycle-crash-kills-another-pedestrian-central-park http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/bicycle-crash-kills-... That's the first search result - there are others an old 2011 study https://www.scribd.com/doc/65531772/Hunter-Bike-Accident-Study https://www.scribd.com/doc/65531772/Hunter-Bike-Accident-Stu... which has the pull quote: "This present study, based on every hospital in New York State, hasfound that in New York State alone, there were approximately 1000 pedestrians struck by cyclists each year necessitating medical treatment at a hospital. Even this figure grossly underestimates the frequency with which pedestrians are injured in collisions with cyclists."