Closetbiker,
I'm a bit confused by the study you cited. I have a print-out of Bicycle Use and Safety in Paris, Boston, and Amsterdam, 1998. In it they show two graphs. Could you tell me what that first one actually says. It appears to me that the actual rate from the UN data is 17.7 bicycle deaths per million in the Netherlands, 5.6 in the France, and 3.1 in the United States. Then they go on and say that the Netherlands are safer than the USA or France, but they compare passenger/bicycle rates combined. Here's the graphs from the study.
By the way, to you who may be following this, Closetbiker is spamming the thread to get as far away from those studies I posted as possible, without answering concerning the difference between his statements and the Singapore study.
John