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 Posted: 22:12 - 18 Sep 2012  Post subject: Interactive guide to bike accidents in the uk |
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So if you live in east anglia your pretty safe apparently 
oil and diesel seem to be the major cause of most accidents as well 
https://www.mceinsurance.com/resources/uk-motorcycle-accident-hotspots/
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Posted: 22:25 - 18 Sep 2012  Post subject: Re: Interactive guide to bike accidents in the uk |
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Is that proven oil and diesel spills or they're just blamed more than anything else?
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| Posted: 23:10 - 18 Sep 2012 Post subject: |
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Most accidents - London. Great
Although looking further into it, out of 5157 accidents here only 37 were fatal, 666 deemed as serious though.
Interesting site. 
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| Posted: 23:23 - 18 Sep 2012 Post subject: |
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Without normalizing these statistics to how many riders there are, most of the numbers are very hard to make much sense of.
I mean, if a place has 5x more accidents, but 10x more bikers, it's not really an accident hotspot, but by this analysis it will seem so.
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| Posted: 23:52 - 18 Sep 2012 Post subject: |
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That proofs speed isn't a killer - most accidents in 30mph
But I live in pretty dangerous location -SE
beware of oil and diesel
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So...where I live (Yorkshire) there were 1719 accidents.
1562 were male
563 were in my age group = 32% = 180 males (approx)
Still not brilliant odds...so
If I only ride my bike between 1am and 4am (11 total accidents) on a Friday (only 13.5% happen then), sticking to 20mph (only 15 total accidents) on rural roads (39% accidents happen there) I should be pretty safe! 
In addition to the above, should I stick to icy or flooded roads then I should be invincible! (zero accidents!!)
Seriously though... that an interesting site.
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| the_quick wrote: | That proofs speed isn't a killer - most accidents in 30mph |
Yes, in 30mph limits, not necessary at 30mph.
And most accidents are "slight". Correlation does rather imply causation, until you have some evidence to the contrary. Occam's Razor gonna cut a bitch.
It's complete bollocks, of course. Look at the ludicrously vast preponderance of "Oil or diesel". E.g. for Scotland, 682 "oil or diesel" versus 138 in all other conditions - and only 372 "urban". Sounds like "fell off, claimed on insurance, can't have been my fault because I ride like a boss".
And there are thousands of accidents in "snow", but none (zero) on "frost or ice" anywhere in the county? 
It's more informative about insurance claims than accidents.
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