Re:Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every Ci...
by triceratops on Monday July 01, 2019 @05:05PM
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> Their 120 deaths and 3400 serious injuries per year, on a population of 17M,
Is that a lot? How does it compare to the rest of the world, and especially, other countries with good bike infra? Wouldn't deaths & injuries/unit distance be a better measure, since the Dutch ride so much more than Americans? I think more context is needed on that number.
On a per-mile basis, is biking with children more dangerous than driving them in a car? After all the leading cause of childhood mortality in the US is car accidents.[1] So we could easily conclude that riding in a car is a highly unsafe activity for children.
Is that a lot? How does it compare to the rest of the world, and especially, other countries with good bike infra? Wouldn't deaths & injuries/unit distance be a better measure, since the Dutch ride so much more than Americans? I think more context is needed on that number.
On a per-mile basis, is biking with children more dangerous than driving them in a car? After all the leading cause of childhood mortality in the US is car accidents.[1] So we could easily conclude that riding in a car is a highly unsafe activity for children.
1. https://www.cdc.gov/safechild/child_injury_data.html