Advocacy & Safety - Facts and stats

last week I posted a thread in the VC forum asking for websites with facts and stats on cyclist/motor vehicle accidents and if riding position played a part in the accident. But no one has responded. I need the information for a college english course. I have read opinions on these forums but they dont have any real ground - just like if I said that by pushing the peddle with your foot would break your ankle. If someone can point me to some factual numbers I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.

Google is your friend.

For starters, there's the FARS (http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov) database which has statistics on roadway fatalities including bicycles. Here's an older study of bicycle-motor vehicle collisions in Palo Alto, California (http://www.bicyclinglife.com/Library/riskfactors.htm).

In your original thread you asked for very specific information that may not even be available. Robert Hurst's site has the best list of bicycle crash studies (and more) that I've ever seen...

http://www.industrializedcyclist.com/lies.html

here are numbers from San Jose, ca for 2007. Not sure what you mean by riding position, but wrong way cyling is a biggee

http://www.sanjoseca.gov/transportat...l%20Report.pdf

If you're writing for a college English course, you should definitely determine the difference between peddle and pedal before submitting your final version.
Also, proper typography generally puts two spaces after a period.

Have you checked the library? If you're in college you generally have access to a wide variety of online databases and journals. If not, there's this great site called "Wikipedia". I hear you can quote fearlessly and extensively from it for any college level course.

If you're writing for a college English course, you should definitely determine the difference between peddle and pedal before submitting your final version.
Also, proper typography generally puts two spaces after a period.

Generally, you want to use one space after a period. The two space rule originated from typewriters where it was difficult to see the end of a sentence.

Of course this is all moot since multiple consecutive whitespace is collapse into one space in HTML.

Generally, you want to use one space after a period. The two space rule originated from typewriters where it was difficult to see the end of a sentence.

Of course this is all moot since multiple consecutive whitespace is collapse into one space in HTML.

And I got jumped on in an earlier post for intimating a school paper on bike safety was trivial at best. Now look a those same jackals feeding on their own for misspelling a word or two. I can't stop laughing! Hey, poster: spell any way you can. I'll know what you mean.

Thanks to all who actually participated in answering my questions.
what I meant by riding position was whether the cyclist was riding vehicularly, or as a pedestrian, etc.

last week I posted a thread in the VC forum asking for websites with facts and stats on cyclist/motor vehicle accidents and if riding position played a part in the accident. But no one has responded. I need the information for a college english course. I have read opinions on these forums but they dont have any real ground - just like if I said that by pushing the peddle with your foot would break your ankle. If someone can point me to some factual numbers I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.

Here is a link to some stuff here in Toronto, ON

http://www.toronto.ca/transportation/index.htm#data

There was an old comprehensive study done, maybe 10 years ago, should be on the same site, if you look around for it.

If you're writing for a college English course, you should definitely determine the difference between peddle and pedal before submitting your final version.
Also, proper typography generally puts two spaces after a period.

Ah, incorrect, IJM. While proper typography on a typewriter, which had monospaced letters, was to use two spaces after a period, with a word processor one should use only one space after a period.