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Beyond Safety in Numbers: Why Bike Friendly Cities are Safer
Posted on July 14th, 2011 3 commentsI don’t have time to figure any of this out, but in a nutshell, this sounds like a reasonable explanation;
The traffic fatality rates tend to be tied together (i.e. car vs. bike vs. ped), and…
high death rate places have faster traffic in general and vice versa.
Beyond Safety in Numbers: Why Bike Friendly Cities are Safer. The full published paper is linked, but i haven’t looked at it yet. (and i can’t open it on my android tablet?)
Why is AZ so deadly; and why does no one seem to notice or care?
Does, or could this explain the huge disparity between, for example, Arizona’s high traffic fatality rate and Massachusett’s extraordinarily low fatality rate? Check out the NHTSHA numbers here. Arizona’s rates are between TWO AND THREE TIMES as deadly as MA. Why?
These are composite traffic fatality rates, not bicyclist or ped or motorcyclist.
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Final 2010 U.S. Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities released @ Arizona Bike Law Blog December 9th, 2011 at 12:24
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azbikelaw August 6th, 2011 at 17:04