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04-11-08 | 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by mconlonx

Wow. You haven't looked too hard, have you? From the FHA:

http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/PED_BIKE/...crash_iihs.pdf

This was the first official google hit, I think I remember seeing 2006 figures somewhere and bike deaths in the US seem to be around 700 or so each year.

Also:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/download...fatalities.pdf
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks...lariskbike.htm (I REALLY like this one...)
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/nhts...006/810802.pdf

And there's plenty more from non-official sources.

Admittedly not the kind of detailed stuff that might actually be useful, but the raw info is out there.

sorry, faulty memory. Off by 1 digit. Less than 1,000. With 50 states, that's just 20 a state. More die from falls/year than that. {I'ld bet, I don't have the numbers.}. Point I was trying to make is the number is not high enough to warrant official interest.

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