Originally Posted by
phoebeisis
So 14/1 pedestrian deaths Cars vs bikes. REALLY THAT BAD!!!??? Per mile traveled this makes bikes look like oldster killing machines.
Tiny sample-I'm assuming nationally 14/1 isn't the ratio??
No. There have been two cyclist-caused ped deaths in the past two calendar years, but nobody remembers (or has found,
AFAIK) when the last one before that might have been, anywhere in the Bay Area. Just for rough comparison, about a hundred peds a year are killed in Bay Area crashes.
(I don't think, BTW, that miles of travel is a particularly useful statistic to use when comparing bikes, peds, motorists, etc. But that's for another thread.)
Anyone have national numbers car pedestrian deaths vs bicycle pedestrian deaths.
I hope someone can find and share those numbers, but I don't think anyone keeps track of them -- I've been looking for some time.
Guessing most bike pedestrian deaths are of oldsters- fragile,less agile slower-like the recent SF death.
If the bike-caused-crash numbers are anything like the overall numbers, oldsters and children are at much higher risk of death as peds than other age groups.