New study by @RachelAldred and colleagues drawing on four official data sets for England for 2005-15, analyses the risks posed to other road users from bicycles, cars and taxis, vans, buses, lorries and motorbikes per billion vehicle kilometres travelled.
mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/blog/men-more-…
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The researchers found cars and taxis were associated with two-thirds of fatalities to other road users, but lorries were associated with more than five times as many deaths for each km driven, with a similarly high death toll for buses.
doi.org/10.1136/injury…
#RoadSafety
doi.org/10.1136/injury…
#RoadSafety
At the other end of the scale, cycling is relatively safe for others: it was associated with fewer deaths to other parties per km ridden than all the other types of transport, with just one other party death per billion km cycled.
doi.org/10.1136/injury…
doi.org/10.1136/injury…
Analysis by gender showed men posed higher risk to other road users for 5 of 6 vehicle types. For cars & vans, risk posed by men was double that posed by women per km driven, rising to four times higher for lorries, and >10 times higher for motorbikes.
doi.org/10.1136/injury…
doi.org/10.1136/injury…
