This is three years old, but I don't remember seeing it before -
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/streetsahead/download/downloads/id/58/cycle_incident_analysis_2004-2010
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"Bicycle Incident Analysis Report" (CEC)
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Well spotted!
I searched on part of 'new' URL so didn't find it.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Hmm, looks like the injuries are entirely related to the volume of cycling. Increasing cycling per annum, equals increasing injuries. Increased summer cycling means increased summer injuries. More men cycling means more injured men. Postcodes with greater cycling have greater injuries.
I'd hazard a guess that the reduction in child injuries is caused by fewer children cycling.
Yet the report concludes that there will be safety in numbers - despite the graph that shows cycle rates with a positive trend of gradient 5, KSI with gradient 6 (i.e. increasing faster than cycling rates!) and all injuries of gradient 4...
76% of serious injuries result from a vehicle hitting a cyclist. 18% are result from a cyclist hitting a vehicle.
72% of serious injury contributory factors were assigned to the driver, 28% of the contributory factors were assigned to the cyclist (more than one contributory factor could be present).
The one upside is that the conclusions don't advocate education and personal protective equipment...
Robert
Posted 10 years ago # -
Since the report above was published we have 3-4 more years of data to look at trends/changes.
Briefly, for fatalities there were 2 years with 2 people killed in each, then 2 years without reported fatal cycling accidents (?, full 2014 data isn't available yet.) For serious casualties the pattern from 2004 to 2011 was increases in alternate years followed by smaller falls in between. 2012 differed with an increase for the second year in a row, and 2013 differed by falling as much as 2012 had increased. For total reported casualties the general rise from 2004 to 2010 continued to 2011, then levelled off with 2012 and 2013 being almost the same as 2011.There was a study from West Yorkshire published last week, which includes links on how "The methods of this research are reproducible, allowing others to re-use the code used to analyse STATS19 and other
datasets for their own purposes. We encourage the re-use of the R code stored at github.com/Robinlovelace/bikeR for further
work in other areas, with due acknowledgement to this paper."Posted 10 years ago #
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