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This is the most detailed report on bike accidents I've seen. It's interesting to look at the breakdown by accident type, where control signal "ride/drive throughs" account for a significant number of accidents, while being right-hooked (what I always fear) is the cause of a relatively small number of accidents.

However, these are only the reported (thus presumably more severe) accidents, and having a car run a red light and hit you (or vice versa) is likely to be a more severe accident than a right hook, since the speeds involved in the drive outs are likely to be higher.

A significant number of these accidents involve children; it would also be interested to separate out the accidents involving adults from those involving children. I started to do so, but the website is fairly sluggish.
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