Biking getting safer...?

[weasley]

Looks like bikes are bucking the trend in terms of road deaths in 2011. We're either getting out less, getting more defensive or bouncing better.
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[supZ]

whilst its good the number has dropped from the previous year its still 19% of accidents made by 5% of the vehicles on the road. its still huge.

but, any drop is a good thing

i would actually venture a guess its partly down to the poor weather this year. we havent had that proper summer that the '6 monthers' come out of hiding and throw themselves at the scenery.
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[Tomzo47]

surely they don't realise that now there is no point in anybody 17-19 paying for their tests, and therefore paying for no training or swatting up on road laws. CBT doesn't even come close to covering all of this, so realistically we're going to have a lot more 125 riders not knowing how to be fully safe. well done DSA! Fucked everything up again! I'm glad I've got my licence sorted.....

Edit: Wrong thread
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[supZ]

[Rogerborg]

Yup, it's hardly a huge leap of faith to go ahead and put that down to fewer fast rural miles thanks to rotten summers.

I'll chase it up later, but it'll be interesting to see how that compares to the "serious injury" figures. Kills are down even though sales of commuter 125s are up quite sharply.

It's only another hop and a skip of faith to pin it specifically on weekend heroes getting rained off, or Born Againers sodding off the sportsbikes and getting onto Ewan-and-Charliemobiles instead.

Well, good on us, we should enjoy being on the high horse for a change. all round to everyone else.
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[doggone]

This is a touristy area and the crap weather the last three months means all traffic including bikes has been way down on normal - especially the spur of the moment weekend runs.
Plus the economic slow-down is having an almost subconscious effect, so people decide to not burn fuel in borderline decisions.

[Alpha-9]

Any of these things are more likely to kill you than bikes anyway, live a little

https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/10/28/Factfile_deaths_large.png

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8401344.stm is pretty cool
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[Going]

I like the look of Accidental Poisoning

[daemonoid]

[Clanger]

No, I don't think it is.
Take one example. My work colleague followed me for half of the journey to work the other day which was a good 15mins (I was on my bike), at one point I turned around to look at him and waved...

We got to work, he followed me through the automated gate and parked up.

Later when we caught up, I asked if he worked out who it was, after I'd waved at him...he said "I didn't even see a motorbike on my journey to work this morning..." Now that's fooking worrying!!!!!
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[kernow24]

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[Andrew122]

[Derivative]

[Sload]

[Redoko]

Just 3%...

If in the next two years it accelerates then look into it.

Too many knee-jerk reactions.
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[Derivative]

[c-m]

1900 is enough.

Generally once you've got 50+ people in each of your breaks, the results are basically set. The additional sample just makes it look more robust.

Source: I work in market research producing reports for governing bodies
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[daemonoid]

[c-m]

[Derivative]

Perhaps 'sample size' is an incorrect term to use.

The sample is all UK citizens. ~60 million.
Or at least, all UK motorists.
The number of deaths is ~2000.

One or two accidents can throw off the stats significantly.
A serious two-vehicle collision could potentially add nearly half a percentage point (8 deaths).

Take, for example, the number of people born with a very rare genetic defect per year. One year, there could be six. The next, eleven. The number has almost doubled - that doesn't necessarily mean there's an underlying problem to look at, with reasonably small figures the derivative is affected easily because of the discrete nature of the data.

[daemonoid]

[daemonoid]

[Derivative]

The relatively short time periods used also play a part.
You'd expect to see a huge variation in the number of weekly road deaths, for example. A year is not that long - especially when there have been no real significant changes in that time period.

[Rogerborg]

There are somewhere north of 37,000,000 licensed drivers in the UK.

So that's a 2.76% rise in deaths (OH NOES!), and less than 0.00014% increase in your chances of dying (OH... k).
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike