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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Some traffic stats
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:06:03 -0400
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On 3/13/2024 3:44 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 3/13/2024 11:34 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>> https://www.cityofmadison.com/police/newsroom/incidentreports/incident.cfm?id=30855
> 
>  From that site:
> 
> * On average, every day, twenty pedestrians are killed by a moving 
> vehicle in the United States.
> 
> * Approximately 76,000 pedestrians and 47,000 bicyclists are injured in 
> roadway crashes annually in the United States.
> 
> I'll note that the figures for pedestrians are far worse than for 
> bicyclists. Yet the general public thinks of bicycling as much more 
> dangerous than walking.

I think if you compare injuries per participants or injuries per miles 
traveled, you'll see they're probably correct.


> 
> As we left at the start of today's group ride, a woman walking a dog 
> said "Please be safe!" She has probably never said that to other 
> pedestrians.
> 

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