Originally Posted by
CrankyOne
Per hour is equal? Bicycle fatalities are about 5 times that of cars. I'd guess most people's commutes don't take them 5 times as long.
A lot of the fatalities are from overtaking on long rural roads. Higher speed differentials. Commuting is not a large portion of bicycle miles in general. That's one of the ways that we cut down on the odds. Most of us don't have the 20 miles on winding rural roads.
Personally, I think that the high end of the range of estimates (5 times) is rather ... high.