Findings from Statistics of Bicycle
Collisions
- County roads and state routes have a
disproportionate number of fatal bicycle collisions in relation to the
total number of bicycle collisions.
- More than half of fatal bicycle
collisions involved a pickup or panel type vehicle.
- The 10 to 15 age groups experienced the
highest bicycle collision rate. The rate for this age group is twice that
of the rate for the next highest age group.
- Collision rates for bicyclists aged 15
or younger have shown a decline from the base years of 1988 to 1993.
Bicyclists in the age groups from 16 to 54 have shown an increase.
- Approximately 80 percent of bicyclists
involved in collisions were male.
- Injury severity for male and female
populations is similar.
- Approximately half the collisions
occurred at intersections. The actions of bicyclists (22%) contributed
slightly more to the occurrence than the motorists' actions (19%). It was
not possible to determine whose actions were responsible in the remaining
9 percent of intersection collisions.
- Bicycling opposite to the direction of
traffic (wrong way) accounted for 16 percent of all collisions. Bicyclists
being hit from behind by a motor vehicle, commonly misperceived as a
leading cause of bicycle collisions, accounted for only 5 percent of all
collisions.
- Although alcohol involvement in all
bicycle collisions was very low, 12% of bicyclists and 12% of motorists
were impaired in fatal collisions.
- Rates of collisions between cyclists and
motor vehicles are roughly double in cities than in towns, at an average
of 3 collisions per ten thousand persons. Fatal collisions afflict 0.02 people
per ten thousand per year.
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