Cyclists kill more people than motorists in Holland for the first time in the bicycle

[dplasters]

I look forward to this becoming an e-bike topic.

[Dewey]

Meanwhile there are 15,000 Golf cart accidents/year in the US…

The Dutch have in the past year responded by banning Class 3/speed pedelecs from bicycle paths, introduced a higher helmet standard for speed pedelecs, invested in bicycle safety research technologies like steering assist, while European brake manufacturers like Bosch and Magura introduced ABS for ebikes. Dutch bicycle infrastructure might have a tiny bit to do with such enviably low road accident death rates compared with here in the US where we have horrendous rta death rates of 10,000/year by cars, if only someone had written a book explaining how the Dutch did this and how ebikes increasingly play a part in getting more people on bikes. Ebike riders are older and need more help to ride heavier ebikes safely, help is on it’s way.

Typical Daily Fail yellow journalism.

[mstone]

@Dewey 190356 wrote:

Dutch bicycle infrastructure might have a tiny bit to do with such enviably low road accident death rates compared with here in the US where we have horrendous rta death rates of 10,000/year by cars

Note: that’s 30+k. It had dropped from the 40s to the low 30s earlier this decade, but is climbing again.

[huskerdont]

Here’s the latest estimate from U.S. DOT/NHTSA:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/us-dot-announces-2017-roadway-fatalities-down

tldr? 37,133 in 2017, a 2% decrease after a few years of larger increases.

[Dewey]

I have no words, this is why evidence based policy decision making needs to return to fashion

[SarahBee]

Interesting that though male cycling deaths increased, female cycling deaths decreased. I would love to see a follow up study on the variables contributing to the gender disparity.

[Dewey]

Responding to mortality figures reported for 2018 by Statistics Netherlands, the director of the Dutch cyclists union Saskia Kluit reported “it is striking that the casualties on e-bikes remained stable: 57 in 2018. The electric bike is not so dangerous as some portray it.“ Source: https://www.fietsersbond.nl/nieuws/meer-fietsdoden-fietsersbond-wil-onderzoek-en-daadkracht/

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