Originally Posted by
Bekologist
personal observations can be deceiving.
fatal crashes involving bicyclists has declined in hawaii; the non-fatal crash rate looks flat, but increases in ridership reported by CBHI coupled to the accident rate suggest a DECLINING INDEXED ACCIDENT RATE for cyclists in Hawaii.
sorry, but the data doesn't support increased endangerment of cyclists in hawaii as a result of more riders on the road.
As we have been through the statistics game for Hawaii before, why do you wish to play ignorant again simply to mislead. Yes the cyclist death rate has decreased recently for Hawaii, because of the restrictions place on the downhill riding at Haleakala by inexperience tourist. It does not take too many tourist deaths to hugely skew the statistics.
So it seems my observations are correct when someone is not trying to lead astray with ignorance of the basis of the statistics they wish to use.