Following on from the pavement cycling thread, and Dave's comment that there are plenty things more likely to kill you than a pavement cyclist... Interesting article from the Guardian here on deaths in England and Wales in 2010.
So, things that kill more than 2 people a year (which, coincidentally, is the exact number of pedestrians killed in collision with pedal cyclists in 2010).
3 - Bitten by dog
5 - Pedestrian in collision with motorbike
5 - Accidental suffocation in bed
5 - Contact with hornets, bees and wasps
7 - Bitten by other mammal
29 - Drowning in the bath
39 - Pedestrian hit by train
53 - Fall from a ladder
55 - Pedestrian in collision with lorry or bus
91 - Fall from, out of, or through (?) building
129 - Exposure to 'forces of nature'
133 - Pedestrian in collision with car or van
188 - Alcohol poisoning
203 - Car occupant in collision with stationary object
214 - Accidental hanging/strangulation
319 - Assault
433 - Medical complications
808 - Car occupant in 'transport accident'
3,377 - Intentional self-harm