Dan Savage weighs in on cycling fatalities
Don't read the comments August 30th, 2009
Sex columnist Dan Savage has weighed in on cycling fatalities. For some reason
It took a whole seven comments for someone to say that because bicyclists are small and unprotected by a giant steel cage, they should go ride elsewhere.
Erik Ryberg
August 31st, 2009 at 5:39 pm
52,000? Over 80 years? For the whole country? That seems a little light.
August 31st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Sounds a lot safer to bike than drive. Almost 42,000 are killed in auto related accidents EVERY year.
http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/fatal-accident-statistics.html
October 9th, 2009 at 11:41 am
better link (I know this is old news, but I’m only finding it now)
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/08/28/who-causes-cyclists-deaths
Seattle may have a reputation for being cycling friendly, but judging by the reader comments (even in the urban-youth-oriented free weekly, The Stranger) it’s apparently a pretty thin veneer with seething homicidal hatred just below the surface. Yay!