http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/article3621669.ece
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"Cycling is almost five times safer than driving for men under 21"
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Posted 12 years ago #
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What they mean is, "Men under 21 drive badly". Who knew? What makes anyone think they'd cycle any better?
Posted 12 years ago # -
But surely the point is that there is a huge difference between crashing a bike at 15mph and a car at 70mph.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I think the key point is that cycling is safer for _everyone else_ than driving for men under 21.
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Yep, really ought to read "Men under 21 are X times more dangerous when driving than cycling" as the headline, and discuss X in the fine print.
X with respect to themselves is apparently 5, but with respect to everyone else is presumably somewhere in the hundreds? Thousands?
Posted 12 years ago # -
No, young men tend, on the whole, to only kill themselves and their passenger friends in single car collisions involving leaving the road and colliding with a wall or a tree. There's an occasional head-on.
The perennial problem for young men is the lure of peer- and girl-impressing, sensation seeking so the likelihood is that if they weren't driving they'd find some other way to fulfil that need. The implication that if they switched from a car to a bicycle they'd be five times less likely to die is, I think, not true.
Posted 12 years ago # -
@Instography: I'd sorta-kinda- divided the number of people young drivermen kill by the number people young cyclomen kill. Neither incuding themselves.
It wasn't a very precise calculation because I don't know what either of those numbers are, just a hazy notion that the cyclist one is less than one a year for the UK.
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