Originally Posted by JPprivate

I ran my own numbers partially from the kindly provided link by TandemGeek, partially from other sources.
700 people died cycling but all cyclists make up only .2% of all road miles traveled. (http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/almanac.html) Cars (more or less) made up 99.8% of all road miles traveled and accounted for 40,000 deaths. So cars travel 499 times more miles than bikes. If cyclists were to travel as many miles as cars we would have 349,300 bike deaths. Or in other words, every mile traveled by bike is 8.7times more dangerous than the same mile traveled by car.
Please somebody tell me I am wrong here somewhere.