Toronto cycling by the numbers

[marmar]

from NOW Toronto:






http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=186904

[happyslug]

1. I notice the differences between this and National Accident Bike-Car Rates

Now in New York City passing accidents are the major cause of death of cyclists:

http://rightofway.org/research/cyclists.pdf

By 90% of all pedestrians killed by automobiles in New York City, the fault is clearly the Driver of the Automobile NOT the Pedestrian.

http://www.cars-suck.org/news/kbarelease.html

In A Toronto report, higher bicycle support and use, lead to a drop in accidents involving bicycles:

http://www.sharetheroad.ca/what-are-the-dangers-in-terms-of-cycling-safety--p128277

Here is the US Federal National Highway Traffic Safety Study of 2005:
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/TSF2005.PDF

On page 133 of that report it shows that while 29.3% of Cyclist are killed at Intersections, that raises to 61.8% of all accidents if total injuries are counted.

Of Course you have to read the report carefully, when it comes to the cause of the Accident on page 136, 48.1% of the accidents no cause was known, and the rest shows various problems, but NOT if the cyclist or the driver was at fault.

Here is the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission's
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/344.pdf

Some other studies on the subject:
http://www.bicyclinglife.com/Library/Accident-Study.pdf#search=\'Bicyclist%20accidents\'