UniLog
- Cycle Safety: Some Statistics
What is safe on a cycle? I've read many opinions, and I tend to have a few strong feelings myself.
A few days ago I ran across a good resource for bicycle safety, mostly applicable to unicycling. Links are below.
Page eight of one report has a few interesting stats:
In the model for riders 15 year of age and older, risk is also affected by surface. As in the children's model, the adult risk was higher on paved roadways. The risk on neighborhood streets was about 7 times the risk on bike paths and about 9 times the risk on unpaved surfaces. Moreover, the risk on major thoroughfares, the highest risk riding surface, was about 2.5 times the risk on neighborhood streets. ... However, there was no significant difference in risk between daylight and non-daylight hours.
For children paved surfaces were 1.7 time the risk of riding on a sidewalk.