@lordofthemark 194169 wrote:
According to the NHTSA, data from 2010 to 2015 shows that a majority of bicyclist fatalities occurred on urban roads, as opposed to rural roadways. During this period, 69.6 percent of bicyclist fatalities were in an urban environment, while 30.4 percent were in rural areas.”
Unfortunately, normalizing that data is near impossible so determining the relative risk is also a guessing game. At some point trying to squeeze more information out of bad data is an exercise in futility and it makes sense to just do something.
@scoot 194173 wrote:
I don’t have the data at hand, but the urban cyclist fatalities surely do not contain the same fraction of “motorist overtaking bicyclist, non-intersection” as the rural ones do.
I’m not sure there’s really good data on that either. Certainly cyclist collision investigations leave quite a lot to be desired in my experience–I’d guess that some non-trivial fraction of “he swerved into me” aka “cyclist failed to yield right of way” should fall into this category except that the official report contains only the driver’s opinion. I can think of at least one local urban fatality caused by a sideswiping truck, and I’m sure that’s not an isolated incident–consider peoples’ experience of close passes that didn’t kill them. (“Motorist overtaking bicyclist” does not mean “ran over like a steamroller”.)
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