Comment 87112

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted March 07, 2013 at 19:27:05 in reply to Comment 87110

Those statistics surprise me ... either 2012 was a very unusual year, or perhaps you mis-remembered.

The figures for 2009 and 2010 show that in both 2009 and 2010 there were 12 motorist fatalities (driver or passenger) and 2 cyclist fatalities.

In 2010 there were 48 major injuries for motorists, compared with 10 major injuries for cyclists, and 910 minor injuries for motorists, compared with 74 minor injuries for cyclists.

Overall, in 2010 2146 motorists were injured or killed, while only 142 cyclists were injured or killed. And don't forget that most of the cyclist injuries and fatalities were due to collisions with vehicles. Any way you look at it, vehicles are the major risk factor, and the number of motorists killed and injured far exceeds the number of cyclists killed and injured, by a factor of 15.

http://www.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/E8EE...

Comment edited by kevlahan on 2013-03-07 19:28:04

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