Sue White wrote:
soup whizzed past me shouting
Seem to remember a post/thread in here, over the last couple of
days, about safety in pavement cycling, in which it was stated that
there were statistics to back up the claim that cycling on the road
was six times safer than on the pavement. Would anyone have a link to
this site ? Having a bit of a discussion with a
chap who wants to implement a pressure group with the stated aim of
banning cyclists from the road and restricting them to the pavement.
He seems to think the pavement is safer to cycle on than the road.

It applies to cycleways as well as pavements.
Here's an incomplete list of cycleway summaries with links to some of
the original papers:

http://www.cyclecraft.co.uk/digest/research.html

Surprisingly, the accident rate on pavements was no higher than on
cycleways. That's probably because pavement cyclists go so slowly: if
regular commuter cyclists like me were forced to use pavements the
accident rate would rocket.

Why would it?

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Matt B