Originally Posted by
TRaffic Jammer
Thanks for the links guys.
It seems, from a cursory glance that the more driver training required to achieve licensing, the less likely you are to be killed by them. hmmmm but it's us who need to learn the rules right?
G-class cars-light trucks account for 92% of nonfatal and 63% of the fatal collisions in the 1986-1996 study.
in a break down of license class fatal collisions.
G (cars/light trucks) 63%
D (large trucks/dumpers/cement mixers) 21%
A (18 wheelers) 8%
C (TTC/intercity buses) 5%
B (School buses) 3%
So from this I derive that the better trained you are as a driver the less likely you are to kill someone in your vehicle. the data is somewhat incomplete because it doesn't delve into whom was doing what at the time. I think would require an exhaustive study of the police reports for each and every crash.
Unfortunately these kinds of events are very hard to study, particularly as they're not that common. Keep in mind too that there are likely more class G vehicles on the road. So if you controlled for that, you may find the differences aren't as great as they appear.
Here's something else I found:
http://www.toronto.ca/transportation.../2008_bike.pdf
and If you think cyclists have it bad
http://www.toronto.ca/transportation...strian_safety/