Recently, Jack Bulkley (@veloreviews) wrote a brief article outlining some of the findings from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Traffic Safety Facts from 2009.
He wrote, “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Traffic Safety Facts 2009 divides traffic fatalities into three categories: occupants, motorcyclists, and non-occupants. For 2009 in the USA, 24,747 occupants were killed and over 2 million injured. For motorcyclists the number is 4,462 killed and 90,000 injured.
While the numbers show cars and motorcycles being much more of a danger to themselves and each other, there were also 4,872 non-occupants killed and 116,000 injured.
Cyclists made up 630 of the dead and 51,000 of the injured.
I don’t know what to say about these numbers. Certainly 30,000 families morning their dead seems a high cost. I did find that around 60% of the cycling incidents involve riding at night without lights. So just that one simple change greatly decreases your chance of being a number in a future report.”
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