Article in (the last place you would expect it!) the 'Drive' section of
today's Age!!!

"According to Australian Transport Safety Bureau figures, there were
more than a million bikes sold in the 2002-3 financial year".
Cars wil ONLY (estimate) sell 960,000.
Goes on to talk about safety/accident figures related to cyclists.
26 killed in 2003 (that high? thawt it was lower...)
Cyclists account for about 2% of road deaths (isnt that almost
identical to our poportion of trips??? ) and about 11% of
seriously injured each year (now that seems disproportionately high on
our part )
Says other stuff too but being a 2-finger bandit on the keyboard,
someone else can tickle the plastic!


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flyingdutch