CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: For the young, especially males, cycling is safer than driving

CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: For the young, especially males, cycling is safer than driving http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: For the young, especially males, cycling is safer than driving en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:50:44 +0000 wee folding bike on "For the young, especially males, cycling is safer than driving" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10488#post-114892 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:05:47 +0000 wee folding bike 114892@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Death per km makes cars look safe because of the effect of motorways which are very safe per km. Perhaps a better option would be per km but exclude motorways. Baldcyclist on "For the young, especially males, cycling is safer than driving" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10488#post-114854 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:18:56 +0000 Baldcyclist 114854@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ " ...fatalities by time spent travelling... " Does that mean I'm twice as likely to get killed cycling to work, as I would driving? Drive to work: 25 miles, ~1hr Cycle to work: 25 miles, ~2hrs. Walk to work: 25 miles, ~6hrs. <<< eek :( Doesn't really take into account distance, the 'death per km/mile travelled' is a better statistic. Two Tired on "For the young, especially males, cycling is safer than driving" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10488#post-114815 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:03:15 +0000 Two Tired 114815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ For the young, especially males, cycling is safer than driving. This sentence requires the word "statistically" sharply inserted up its back end. SRD on "For the young, especially males, cycling is safer than driving" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10488#post-114803 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:22:26 +0000 SRD 114803@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ "When all relevant ICD-10 codes are used, fatalities by time spent travelling vary within similar ranges for walking, cycling and driving. Risks for drivers were highest in youth and fell with age, while for pedestrians and cyclists, risks increased with age. For the young, especially males, cycling is safer than driving." <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0050606" rel="nofollow">http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0050606</a> {Edit, I now see that <a href="http://road.cc/content/news/71717-govt-stats-over-state-risks-cycling-says-new-research-its-pedestrians-young-male">road.cc</a> covered this early in the year, so we may already have discussed. apols if flogging dead horse. I'd not looked at the actual article previously)