Comments on: Arizona has the highest cycling fatality rate? http://azbikelaw.org/blog/arizona-has-the-highest-cycling-fatality-rate/ Cycling, traffic safety and legal topics; energy, transit and transportion economics Thu, 17 May 2012 18:20:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: azbikelaw http://azbikelaw.org/blog/arizona-has-the-highest-cycling-fatality-rate/comment-page-1/#comment-7314 azbikelaw Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:49:28 +0000 http://azbikelaw.org/blog/arizona-has-the-highest-cycling-fatality-rate/#comment-7314 Here's the final 2009 data: <a href="http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811386.pdf" rel="nofollow">Traffic Safety Facts: Bicyclists and Other Cyclist 2009</a> In 2009, tiny Delaware had the highest per-capita rate (far too tiny to constitute a trend), followed by perennially high Florida, then Idaho (also a very small state), then Arizona. (note to self: I extracted table 6, state-by-state data, and put it in the AZstats.xls spreadsheet). <a href="http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pubs/811156.pdf" rel="nofollow">Traffic Safety Facts: Bicyclists and Other Cyclist 2008</a> <a href="http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pubs/810986.pdf" rel="nofollow">Traffic Safety Facts: Bicyclists and Other Cyclist 2007</a> <a href="http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pubs/810802.pdf" rel="nofollow">Traffic Safety Facts: Bicyclists and Other Cyclist 2006</a> Here’s the final 2009 data:

Traffic Safety Facts: Bicyclists and Other Cyclist 2009

In 2009, tiny Delaware had the highest per-capita rate (far too tiny to constitute a trend), followed by perennially high Florida, then Idaho (also a very small state), then Arizona.
(note to self: I extracted table 6, state-by-state data, and put it in the AZstats.xls spreadsheet).

Traffic Safety Facts: Bicyclists and Other Cyclist 2008

Traffic Safety Facts: Bicyclists and Other Cyclist 2007

Traffic Safety Facts: Bicyclists and Other Cyclist 2006

]]> By: azbikelaw http://azbikelaw.org/blog/arizona-has-the-highest-cycling-fatality-rate/comment-page-1/#comment-1676 azbikelaw Tue, 26 May 2009 03:22:58 +0000 http://azbikelaw.org/blog/arizona-has-the-highest-cycling-fatality-rate/#comment-1676 According to a news blurb that appeared in the East Valley Tribune in 2009: "In Arizona, 21 cyclists were killed in 2007, and the state's average of 3.31 cyclists killed per million population is the eighth-highest fatality rate in the nation." Which sounds about right. According to a news blurb that appeared in the East Valley Tribune in 2009: “In Arizona, 21 cyclists were killed in 2007, and the state’s average of 3.31 cyclists killed per million population is the eighth-highest fatality rate in the nation.”
Which sounds about right.

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