Originally Posted by Helmet Head
Also, whether kids are riding on sidewalks or streets, they continue to represent a disproportionately high percentage of bike-related fatalities, particularly when you consider how much less most kids ride compared to all the adults who ride thousands of miles per year.
Originally Posted by Cyclaholic
This is a horrible but true statement which I think needs to be qualified for the sake of this discussion. What proportion are bike-car collision, what proportion occured where a bike path intersects a road, and what proportion occured while the child was riding on the street (i.e. requiring vehichular cycling skills).
Of course children fatalities are especially painful but HH's post is just more HH juggling of and guessing about misleading and/or non-existant data to support a personal agenda. What "disproportionately high percentage" and how were the percentages calculated? HH provides no data or references at all but HH
knows based on HIS choice of non existant mileage statistics HH thinks HH knows all about. How about what percentage of kids frequently ride bikes vs. what percentage of adults frequently ride bikes? Who says adults ride more than children or have more exposure to risk? HH? Not good enough. I have no doubt children have more accidents and probably more fatalities on playgrounds than adults but I would not make stupid and misleading comments about their
disproportionately high percentage of accidents.