Originally Posted by
pallen
So how many people have been killed by cyclists? How does that rate with other accidents out there? Is this really something everyone should be up in arms about. It seems to me that articles like this are more of a proxy for expressing their irritation at cyclists on the roads and an attempt to upset the public about it.
I would be really surprised if there are an average of 10 pedestrians killed a year for the entire country. It's just a "man bites dog" kind of story and probably has an unspoken bias that bikes don't belong on the road to it as well. Granted, every such fatality is something to be lamented and avoided at all costs, but as I stated above, the real crisis is motorist/pedestrian death rate which is really outrageous. There is an effort to make roads more pedestrian friendly, but in the end, most of the U.S. is pedestrian unfriendly. Even in areas where there is a lot of foot traffic.