{"id":4497,"date":"2010-04-25T11:13:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T00:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2010-04-25T11:13:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T00:13:26","slug":"some-things-on-cycling-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=4497","title":{"rendered":"Some things on cycling accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clovermoore.com\/main\/?id=3341\">Clover Moore<\/a>, from the RTA to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.nsw.gov.au\/prod\/la\/qala.nsf\/18101dc36b638302ca257146007ee41a\/7c1643f2ab9ff02fca2576e30007fdd2?OpenDocument\">State Government<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>According to the RTA&#8217;s most up to date data, between 2004-2008  there were 5,800 crashes involving a pedal cycle, resulting in 61  persons killed and 5,946 injured. Around 95 per cent of these casualties  were the pedal cyclist.<\/li>\n<li>There are range of manoeuvres that contribute to crashes involving  pedal cyclists.An analysis of pedal cycle crashes between 2004-2008  identifies that only five per cent involved a pedal cyclist colliding  with an opening door of a motor vehicle and only around three per cent  involved a car turning left into the path of a pedal cyclist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sadly there is only mention of 8% of the causes of cycling accidents, and no mention of the other, and statistically more significant 92%. Actually I remember reading somewhere, probably on a report in England, that 80% of cycling accidents do not involve a car at all, but just the cyclist on their own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/1614564673\/sizes\/o\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4498\" title=\"BicycleBubbles\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BicycleBubbles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by Clover Moore, from the RTA to the State Government: According to the RTA&#8217;s most up to date[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[839,1001,3155,3454],"class_list":["post-4497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","tag-clover-more","tag-cycling-accidents","tag-rta","tag-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}