On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:06:02 -0700 (PDT), Simon Jester
wrote:

On Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:42:41 PM UTC+1, Peter Parry wrote:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:09:04 +0100, TMS320 wrote:

But 6.8% of the injuries involving motor vehicles lead to death, whereas
only 1.8% of the injuries involving a bicycle do so. Which also means
that out of the whole spectrum of non-fatal injuries, those from a
bicycle must be much less severe. So yes, it demonstrates that bicycles
are considerably less dangerous.

Per distance traveled push bikes and cars cause quite similar levels
of death to pedestrians but push bikes cause significantly more
serious injuries than cars.

In 2016 pedal cyclists killed 0.9 pedestrians per billion km
traveled. They seriously injured 31.

Cars killed 1.1 and seriously injured 16 so similar death rates for
both but Pushbikes seriously injured twice as many as cars.

In terms of accident numbers, Pushbikes were involved in 5,430
accidents per billion km, cars in 476 so Pushbikes were involved in
about 11 times more accidents.

Pedestrians hit by a pushbike were 133, by a car 75.

(Reported casualty and accident rates by urban and rural roads, road
class, road user type, severity and pedestrian involvement, Great
Britain, 2016 Table RAS30018)

About 16% of fatal or serious cyclist accidents reported to the police
do not involve a collision with another vehicle, but are caused by the
rider losing control of their bicycle. In these cases about a quarter
involved excessive alcohol.

Do these figure take into account that the majority of car miles are on trunk roads where there are few, if any, pedestrians? Whilst bicycles spend most of their time in urban environments.

If not then they are worthless.

They do. On urban roads Pushbikes seriously injure 26 pedestrians per
billion km and kill 0.5, cars seriously injure 10 and kill 0.7.