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Official pedal cyclist road deaths in 2016 ex DOT/NHTSA/FARS (Fatality Analysis Reporting System)
On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 11:45:34 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 9/9/2018 2:31 AM, John B. Slocomb wrote: On Sun, 09 Sep 2018 00:02:17 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:24:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote: I take that to indicate that a large number of bicyclists deaths are the homeless or nearly homeless, drunk or nearly so, and riding probably at night with no lights. Or the driver of the motor vehicle was drunk or nearly so. As for homeless/nearly homeless and/or riding at night without lights, you are reading into the small amount of information Jute provided. Perhaps there is more detail in the NHTSA link he provided, which I have not yet looked at. A number of surveys of bicycle accidents indicate that as many as half, or more, involve the cyclist disobeying one traffic regulation, or another and reports from autopsies of cyclists killed in accidents showed that (in New York) as many as 21% had been drinking (6% of auto drivers who were involved in a auto - bicycle accident had been drinking). http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/...v22-story.html https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2...d-bike-deaths/ It might be noted that these reports are not of the "Well, it is estimated..." or "It seems as though...", but are statistics, for example: "in 2011, officers determined fault in 701 crashes between a bicyclist and a motorist in which a cyclist was hurt or killed, according to the reports, submitted to California's Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System. Cyclists were found to be the party most at fault in 390 of those crashes, or 56 percent of the time, the records show." It seems odd, to say the least, that these facts, and facts they are, are never mentioned by bicycle safety advocates. As Pogo said, "we have met the enemy... and he is us." (at least 56% of the time) Year after year, it's been consistently shown that a quarter of dead bicyclists have been drinking. Back in 2007 or 2008, Dr. David Crocker of Austin Texas tried a new tactic in his long-running campaign to get an all-ages mandatory helmet law enacted. He tracked 200 bicyclists admitted to the local hospital trauma center. He wanted to prove the relationship between helmet use and traumatic brain injury (TBI). He also tracked alcohol use. To his disappointment, he found that alcohol use was strongly correlated with TBI, but that the presence or absence of a helmet was not correlated with TBI in a statistically significantly way. Those who brag about carrying growlers of beer on their bikes should probably pay attention. They can carry it... as long as they don;t drink it :-) |
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