Originally Posted by
wphamilton
You may have linked to the wrong article?
At a quick glance, it says that 75,000 people are treated by Emergency Department visits each year, so if we accept that everyone in the country bikes (16 million), and guessing that only a relative few have multiple visits, we have about 0.5% of them in the emergency department each year. Not very different from the stats I found for the USA.
For them, same as in the USA it would be silly to advocate that they all wear helmets with such a tiny chance that they'd need it.
You're right it was sloppy number crunching from my part it is more one ER visit per 225 years and, a hospital admission per 1125 years. The amount of regular cyclists seems to be somewhere between 80-90% of 16,8 million people.so you get very roughly once per 2 centuries and once per millennium respectively. Which is still a magnitude lower than mr bill's hapless helmeted heroes.