Re: Some traffic stats

On 3/14/2024 3:37 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:44:47 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 3/13/2024 11:34 AM, AMuzi wrote:

https://www.cityofmadison.com/police/newsroom/incidentreports/incident.cfm?id=30855

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 From that site:
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* On average, every day, twenty pedestrians are killed by a moving
vehicle in the United States.
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* Approximately 76,000 pedestrians and 47,000 bicyclists are injured in
roadway crashes annually in the United States.
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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.

 <EYEROLL> Could it be that many many more people walk than ride
bicyles?
 Of course riding bicycles is more dangerous than walking and those
figures, if true, substantiate it.
 

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.

 What's your point?

My primary point is that the American public (as a whole, or on average) greatly overestimates the danger of a simple, normal bike ride.
My secondary point, just now, is that I see no value in trying to educate an ineducable and very fearful Florida path rider.
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- Frank Krygowski