Cycling safer than Driving

dirk_van_gently
dirk_van_gently Posts: 826
edited November 2007 in Commuting chat
Yet another good reason to ride your bike.

http://www.citycycling.co.uk/issue29/issue29page41.html

Although I don't like the numbers for when I ride my Moto :-(
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  • Belv
    Belv Posts: 866
    So if one were to permanently drive a car, snowmobile or ride a bike, one would be less likely to die than attending to the normal tasks of the day? :?:

    Well, until they fell asleep!
  • Teuchter
    Teuchter Posts: 102
    Belv wrote:
    So if one were to permanently drive a car, snowmobile or ride a bike, one would be less likely to die than attending to the normal tasks of the day? :?: !
    Most accidents happen in the kitchen or the bathroom (no, not I'm not talking about that kind of accident!) so provided you didn't try snowmobiling while cooking or showering, you'd probably be correct in that observation :)
  • Yellow Cliff
    Yellow Cliff Posts: 231
    I keep on seeing different figures for the mortality rate, most of which show that cycling is marginally more dangerous than driving, but still very safe. For example the Cycling - the actual risks report. Where fatalities per million hours are:
    0.46 cyclist
    0.25 cyclist who rides 280 hrs or more a year
    0.13 UK driver
    Of course, it isn't clear which country/sample size is used for the figures in Citycycling.
  • Parkey
    Parkey Posts: 303
    It's important to note that the same journey will take longer on a bicycle than it will on a car. Perhaps figures per mile would be more appropriate?

    There are also other thing to consider though, such as the benefits of getting daily exercise for example.
    "A recent study has found that, at the current rate of usage, the word 'sustainable' will be worn out by the year 2015"
  • Yellow Cliff
    Yellow Cliff Posts: 231
    Parkey wrote:
    It's important to note that the same journey will take longer on a bicycle than it will on a car. Perhaps figures per mile would be more appropriate?

    There are also other thing to consider though, such as the benefits of getting daily exercise for example.

    yes and the above report doesn't discuss this (only comparing cycling and walking per km). I presume that this is because the statistics for driving make the others look bad!

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