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Bicyclists and Other Cyclists

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  • Alternative Title:
    Traffic Safety Facts 2008 Data
  • Corporate Creators:
    National Center for Statistics and Analysis (U.S.)
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  • Publication/ Report Number:
    DOT HS 811 156`
  • Resource Type:
    Brief
  • Geographical Coverage:
    United States
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • NTL Classification:
    NTL-PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLES-Bicycles ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Accidents ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Highway Safety ; NTL-REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIES-Statistics
  • Abstract:
    The first automobile crash in the United States occurred in New York City in 1896, when a motor vehicle collided with a pedalcycle rider (Famous First Facts, by Joseph Kane). About 53,000 pedalcyclists have died in traffic crashes in the United States since 1932 — the first year in which estimates of pedalcyclist fatalities were recorded. The 350 pedalcyclists killed in 1932 accounted for 1.3 percent of the 27,979 persons who died in traffic crashes that year. In 2008, 716 pedalcyclists were killed and an additional 52,000 were injured in traffic crashes. Pedalcyclist deaths accounted for 2 percent of all traffic fatalities, and pedalcyclists made up 2 percent of all the people injured in traffic crashes during the year. The number of pedalcyclist fatalities in 2008 is 6 percent lower than the 760 fatalities reported in 1998. The highest number of pedalcyclist fatalities ever recorded in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) was 1,003 in 1975. Pedalcyclists accounted for 14 percent of all nonoccupant traffic fatalities in 2008.
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