Originally Posted by closetbiker
BIKE CAR
per 1 million population 2.5 12.9
per 1 million miles travelled 0.2 1.3
This doesn't add up. People, in general, do way more miles in a car than on a bike. Thus, the ratio of death rates in a car (between population and miles travelled) should be much, much larger than for bikes.
The numbers here say that people, on average, put as many miles on a bike as they do in cars.