By Lloyd Alter -- Over on VOX,
Joseph Stromberg rolls out another post on cycling, based on
a new report from the League of American Bicyclists.
They tracked a year of cycling fatalities and looked at the locations,
the types of accidents and the penalties for the drivers that caused the
accidents. And yes, for all the complaints about cyclists being
irresponsible louts who cause accidents by going through stop signs and
red lights, the numbers show otherwise.
A shocking 40% of the deaths are "hit from behind" incidents, where
drivers just go right over a cyclist. This is disproportionately large
in relation to the number of cycling accidents.
Of 238 fatal
crashes where drivers were blamed, 42% were careless or inattentive, 36%
were hit and run, and 12% were drunk or drugged.
The most deaths happen on urban arterial roads, those multi-lane higher
speed roads that probably have lots of room for bike lanes. Because
that's the way you reduce the rear-ender accidents, by giving cyclists
their own separated lane.
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