Riley Geary wrote:


Likewise, Guy had earlier posted CDC data indicating states without a
MHL
generally had lower fatality rates than states with a MHL, and my
recent
research into the subject comfirms that finding--with the 25
continuously
non-MHL states experiencing a slight decline over the past decade
(from
about 5.3 to 5.0) and the 20 continuously MHL states (plus DC)
experiencing
a more pronounced increase since the mid-to-late-1990's (from about
5.5 to
6.5), so who is really kidding whom about fatality rates?

Riley's dedication and perception in analyzing data are well known, and
have been the subject of at least one article in a national cycling
magazine.

I'll note, though, that some readers may not have the desire to follow
his detailed numerical analyses. For those readers, the following
article covers some of the same territory as Riley's paragraph above:

http://www.forbes.com/fyi/99/0503/041.htm