Is bicycling safe?
Uncategorized September 10th, 2007
An interesting article on various statistical analyses that have been done concludes that it is. According to the review, those who follow traffic laws have a much better chance of surviving their trip, and bicycling increases, rather than decreases, your life expectancy.
I have to say I find this hard to believe. I do not feel particularly safe on many of the streets of Tucson, and close calls come so frequently that I sometimes feel lucky to have made it where I’m going. But so far, so good.