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Some cycling conference being mentioned on Twitter #godutchconf or something.
@KarlOnSea mentioned:
since 2000, car fatalities in the NL have come down 50%. For cyclists its -50%
I wondered how numbers compared with Scotland, and found:
640 fatalities in NL in 2010, 16M population. (data source)
174 fatalities in Scotland in 2012, 6M population. (Data Source)
In terms of fatalities alone regardless of mode of transport Scotland appears todo a little better?
Do road fatalities per head of population really tell us much? fatalities per billion vehicle kilometres would be far more illuminating especially given that cycle modal share in Scotland is ~2% compared with +30% in the Netherlands.
Oh and the Go Dutch conference is in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Do road fatalities per head of population really tell us much? fatalities per billion vehicle kilometres would be far more illuminating especially given that cycle modal share in Scotland is ~2% compared with +30% in the Netherlands.
Don't know, but considering car journeys count for a tiny % of what they do here, it may tell us that drivers in NL kill more as a proportion of journeys than they do here.
< car journeys, > people dead?
It may not though...
May be the old "fewer people safely wrapped inside their cars" thing?
Obesity levels are much lower in NL
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