What I asaid at first is what i still say ... there are correlations, but that is not causation.

I see no Evidence of why there are more collisions or more fatal collisions ... and frankly ... i don't care how many people are killed in cars, by cars, on bikes ....

regardless of whether it is 6,000 or 600 or 60,000 I will do what I can for safety ... but i am honest enough to admit that most of the time that is entirely, keeping myself safe.

i have spent most of my life walking, jogging, running, or biking along with vehicular traffic ... far more miles and hours in close proximity with traffic and not in a car than most Americans and somehow I have not been killed.

Paying attention seems to work most of the time.

Unless these drivers are leaving the roadway and picking off people in their yards .... then people are being careless when on the road surface on foot.

Distracted drivers? What about distracted pedestrians?

I know that I when I ride, distracted drivers are an issue ... because i am on the road with them.

On foot ... unless they are so distracted they are driving on the sidewalk ... even if they are not looking it is not an issue because I Am. There is No Way a car of any size should ever be able to 'sneak up" on a pedestrian ... but if said pedestrian is lost in space .....

But ... I do not Know whay collisions an fatalities have increased.

Neither do the people who published its paper.

Would the people in big SUVs have hit the pedestrians they hit if they had been driving Fiat 500s? And would they still have inflicted fatal harm? N on one knows ... it is all speculation. What the numbers seem to show is about a ten percent increase in all collision, fatal and non-fatal, and a 13 percent increase in fatalities.

Meh.