At 11:56 AM 09/01/2003 -0500, Kathryn Kingsbury wrote: [snip] Study article that said the rash of driving in the U.S. is understandable because death rates for cyclists and ped are so much higher here than in Europe. [snip]
I only glanced at the study cited, but a common mistake made in interpreting (and collecting) statistics like the one above is that incidence of crashes PER VEHICLE MILE is usually cited, so of course bike and ped injuries/deaths seem way higher than those in cars, simply because car drivers typically travel so much farther. If/when you compare injuries/deaths PER TRIP, then bicycling and walking become much safer than travelling in a car. Chuck Strawser Project Coordinator Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin 106 E. Doty Street, Suite 400 P.O. Box 1224 Madison, WI 53701-1224 608-251-4456 tel 608-251-4594 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bfw.org _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
