Sujet : Re: Some traffic stats
De : funkmaster (at) *nospam* hotmail.com (Zen Cycle)
Groupes : rec.bicycles.techDate : 13. Mar 2024, 22:06:03
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On 3/13/2024 3:44 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 3/13/2024 11:34 AM, AMuzi wrote:
https://www.cityofmadison.com/police/newsroom/incidentreports/incident.cfm?id=30855
From that site:
* On average, every day, twenty pedestrians are killed by a moving vehicle in the United States.
* Approximately 76,000 pedestrians and 47,000 bicyclists are injured in roadway crashes annually in the United States.
I'll note that the figures for pedestrians are far worse than for bicyclists. Yet the general public thinks of bicycling as much more dangerous than walking.
I think if you compare injuries per participants or injuries per miles traveled, you'll see they're probably correct.
As we left at the start of today's group ride, a woman walking a dog said "Please be safe!" She has probably never said that to other pedestrians.
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