Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!"

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 20:46:59 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:

On Sat Jan 11 13:13:28 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

Some Montana legislators are wanting to make wrong-way riding mandatory.
 
https://www.cyclingwest.com/news/montana-proposes-bill-to-force-cyclists-to-ride-the-wrong-way-in-traffic/
 
Data's quite clear that riding facing traffic is far more dangerous than
riding the same direction as other traffic.
 
I hope - and predict - that this bill will never make it out of committee.

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Frank, somewhere I remember seeing a chart that showed the relationship between collision speed with a car and percentage of fatalities amoung cyclists.
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It showed veryt few deaths at or below 15 mph, slightly higher at 25 and nearly 100% fatality rates at 35 mph aned above.
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Do you remember seeing that graph and do you have a reference for it?

"Can Reducing Speed Limits Reduce Fatal Bicycle and Pedestrian
Crashes?"
<https://www.peoplepoweredmovement.org/can-reducing-speed-limits-reduce-fatal-bicycle-and-pedestrian-crashes/>

The risk of death is approximately:
    10% at 23 mph
    25% at 32 mph
    50% at 42 mph
    75% at 50 mph
    90% at 58 mph

The risk of severe injury is approximately:
    10% at 16 mph
    25% at 23 mph
    50% at 31 mph
    75% at 39 mph
    90% at 46 mph

Found in 2 minutes using Google search.

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