Most frequent causes of cycling accidents

[Rewind]

Thanks, if you ever come to Bahrain you can join us, Friday morning, 06.30 from the Awali Tennis Club car park, rides are usually between 50 and 100km. Ride safe down there in Dubai!

Cheers,

Les

 

[JohnnyBoy]

Thanks, if you ever come to Bahrain you can join us, Friday morning, 06.30 from the Awali Tennis Club car park, rides are usually between 50 and 100km. Ride safe down there in Dubai!

Cheers,

Les

Will do Les, we get over to Bahrain quite a lot, waiting to get the go ahead on new M&S store if that happens will be there most weeks..! Safe riding in Bahrain too and watch out for the idiots with hazard lights on in the rain with no windscreen wipers and doing 160KPH

 

[BentMikey]

The biggest cause of cycling accidents? The rider - single vehicle crashes are the most common for us two-wheelers.

 

[automatic_jon]

It was always my understanding that the biggest cause of a cyclist falling off, was gravity.

 

[Rewind]

Will do Les, we get over to Bahrain quite a lot, waiting to get the go ahead on new M&S store if that happens will be there most weeks..! Safe riding in Bahrain too and watch out for the idiots with hazard lights on in the rain with no windscreen wipers and doing 160KPH

 

[Rewind]

Look forward to seeing you here. Do you still have an ex Awali Wheelers guy called Chris McCann riding with you? If so wish him all the best from us! He was one of our stronger riders. PM me if you are thinking of coming here.

Cheers,

Les

 

[JohnnyBoy]

Will do, not too sure about Chris as I'm probably more middle of the pack, so too speak....!! There's a whole host of different rides and groups here now which is good as there's riding for all abilities.

 

[TVC]

I always thought that the main cause of any accident was people.

 

[dnrc]

the primary cause of all cycling accidents is not stopping in time.

 

[lukesdad]

Over the years I have been party to many disscusions (shall we say ) on the subject of right of way. It exsists as I understand it for example, as permission to proceed as in across land on a Bridleway etc. If it was applied on the roads collisions would not be regarded as accidents in many cases, as there would be a party at fault. It would be far easier to bring cases and prosecute offenders. It should be common sense to me anyway that peds. for example have right of way. If they dont you could just knock em down and call it an accident....no witnesses whose to say any different. As happens far to often at the moment.

 

[HJ]

Do you have a source for this HJ? It would be usefull to bookmark a link for future use of that kind of statistic.

I can't remember all of them but here are a few:

Rumar (1985) using British and American data (quoted by Tom Vanderbilt) 95% of crashes
Lum & Reagan (1995). "Interactive Highway Safety Design Model: Accident Predictive Module". Public Roads Magazine. 93% of crashes
There was a DfT report a couple years ago, carried out by RTL which gave the 87% figure. The surprise with that study was how few accident crashes, involving cyclist and drivers, were attributed to the cyclist, only about 5%. It also showed that RLJing cyclist are involved in very few crashes (not that that is a justification for RLJing).

There are other studies as well.

It is also worth noting that an RAC survey found most British drivers who'd been in a crash did not believe themselves to be at fault. No great surprise there...

 

[atbman]

Just found the following link that gives more info on common causes of cycling accidents...:-

http://www.kenkifer....ealth/risks.htm Cheers,

Rewind

Bear in mind that these are US stats and the proportions are different in this country. Govt stats say drivers at fault in about 65% of all collisions. Curiosly, an AA research paper found that the figure was about 70%

 

[Rewind]

I suppose the whole point is not to become a part of the statistics, at least not the negative ones. This was the whole reaon for my original write up on cycling safely which covers only my own experience and is partly aimed at cycling in the Middle East but I am sure has much wider applications. I am certain it is not complete and it would be good to see anyone else's additional thoughts on what can be done in terms of avoiding accidents. As the old saying goes, "There are lies, damned lies and statistics" the origin of which is uncertain, see http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lies.htm

The risks certainly won't stop me riding as long as I can still do it.

Cheers,

Rewind

 

[richyx]

Cycling Computers

I have had an accident and numerous escapes by messing about with the comp on leaving home to the point that I seldom fit the ****** now.

 

[slowmotion]

Rewind, thanks for a great post.