Originally Posted by 55/Rad
Interesting claim. Can you substantiate this? I'm interested in interpreting the language of this myself. Is it based on sheer number of accidents or actual case by case studies?
Rad - you cannot use miles as a measure because people do not use miles when determining whether to ride a bike or not - everyone uses TIME.
Therefore you don't compare injuries per mile but injuries per UNIT TIME of use. The Insurance Institute does these sorts of things and compiles a list of the most dangerous activities.
I will have to research the location now since my links to that list are now broken.
However, rest assured that bicycling is no more dangerous than riding in a car and on some of the statistics is shown at twice the rate of car safety.
Hmm, here's something:
http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/health/risks.htm
Down near the bottom of the page:
Motoring - .47 fatalities per million hours of exposure
Bicycling - .26 fatalities per million hours of exposure