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Accident data reveals who is the real danger to pedestrians

Roger Geffen, Campaigns & policy director, CTC, Guilford, Surrey, GU2
06 May 2011
 

In response to Paul Biggs’s rant about bicycles being the “weapon of choice” for “getting away with” killing pedestrians, Peter Salter quite reasonably asked him to produce the relevant figures. Paul’s most recent letter didn’t do so, so I am happy to oblige.

During the last five years for which the data is available (2005-09), there were 3,051 pedestrians killed in collisions with motor vehicles: 2,118 involving cars, 933 involving other vehicles....

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