Originally Posted by
sggoodri
What do you think of
Risk Factors for Bicycle-Motor Vehicle Collisions at Intersections
BY ALAN WACHTEL AND DIANA LEWISTON
http://www.bicyclinglife.com/Library/riskfactors.htm
This concentrates on relative safety of intersection negotiation, which is a central theme of vehicular cycling and the League's cycling education program. It's one of the few studies that explicitly considers exposure.
But as previously pointed out this study also gathers zero data on seveity of injuries incurred (or not) by the cyclists in accidents. Evaluating relative " safety," "risk" or "danger" ( all the same thing) cannot be done credibly without evaluating the severity of the various accidents.
Only if risk/safety/danger is measured as the avoidance of
any accident/mishap (regardless of consequences) do such "crash rates" have any alleged meaning. Of course such an evaluation of "relative safety" would count as equal, skinned knee/scratched paint/no injury accidents with fatalities and catastrophic injuries. Let me know when you can find a safety professional (or any professional) who would endorse or rely onsuch a scheme of measuring and/or mitigating risk/safety/danger for any environment.