You'd be better off in A&S, where the are many posters who have these stats at their fingertips.

I'm in the UK, so those are the stats I am familiar with. The most recent Department of Transport figures show that there is one cycling fatality for every twenty nine million miles cycled. Cycling is extremely safe. Moreover, the chances of a cyclist being killed or seriously injured are very similar, per mile travelled, to the figures for pedestrians. One is just as likely (or, more accurately, unlikely) to be hit by a car when walking.

Now, the UK is not the USA. However, it isn't Copenhagen, either. Our newspapers are often full of articles about how dangerous cycling is, how our infrastructure is cyclist-unfriendly and so on. And while it's true that much could be improved, the figures above show that the risks are greatly overstated.

And the roads in Europe weren't built with cyclists in mind. In certain countries, notably the Netherlands, a lot of money has been spent in the past forty years to improve provision for cyclists, but for the most part the roads are just the roads. If there is a difference between Europe and the US it is that ancient settlement patterns have given rise to lots more small rural roads. There's almost always several ways to get from point A to point B over here, which has advantages if you want to take the road less travelled. But I have ridden pretty extensively in the States, and with intelligent route selection I didn't feel any less safe there than I do at home. Stay sober and visible, ride with due care and attention and stop worrying.