7 million trips on Capital Bikeshare and a safety update

Say someone commutes to and from work on CaBi on weekdays, for about 10 months of the year. (Fewer people ride on CaBi in the winter months.) That would be 400 trips. Based on the overall accident rates, that person could follow that pattern of usage for over 560 years with odds of getting into just a single serious bike crash over that time period.

Meanwhile, the lifetime odds of a car occupant dying in a car crash are 1 in 492, as of 2010. The odds of dying from any motor vehicle incidents are 1 in 112, over a lifetime. The chances of dying from heart disease or cancer are 1 in 7. So I’d be more worried about eating all that refined/added sugar and being inactive, than I would be about riding on a bikeshare bike.

http://www.nsc.org/news_resources/injury_and_death_statistics/Documents/2014-Injury-Facts-43.pdf

@jrenaut 87542 wrote:

To be fair, i suspect your reflexes and core strength go way down as you get into your 300s, and the chances of getting in an accident on CaBi go way up.

Those 300-year-olds have no excuse. They need to get to the gym and start doing more parkour training. HTFU and all that.

This guy was still engaging in one-on-one battles at the age of 800:

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