It doesn't look like they accounted for time spent doing any particular
activity. Deaths per thousands hours riding as compared to deaths per
thousand hours in a vehicle would be a fair comparison. The odds my mom dies
on a bike are incredibly slim as she doesn't ride, the odds I die on a bike
are likely significantly higher then the figure below as I spend more time
on my bike then the average person.

On 3/30/06, Eric Kytola wrote:
>
> from:
> http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
>
>
> odds of dying in a car = 1:17,625
> odds of dying on a bike = 1:375,412
>
>
> odds look better on a bike. regardless of bike lanes or not.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Edward Kendrick Sr
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:06 AM
> *To:* obra@list.obra.org
> *Subject:* Re: [OBRA Chat] Bicycling in Hillsboro
>
>
> We need bike lanes on every kind of road in the US, no exceptions.
>
> I was almost killed by a car last year. That changed my perspective on
> life.
>
> We are facing an obesity crisis and global warming. Our infrastructure,
> nationwide, is crumbling. Our economy is very unkind to middle America.
> Given these problems, bike lanes are among the solutions that our elected
> people need to deliver. That's what they get paid to do.
>
> (Last month, I was in a benefit race for a Junior rider, who was killed,
> while training in a group of ~8 riders. It could have been any one of us.)
>
> *Evan MacKenzie * wrote:
>
> It has come to my attention that a number of Hillsboro City Councilors are
> not in favor of bicycle lanes.
> My first question then is:
> What is the ORS that refers to bicycles having the right to use the full
> lane when no bicycle lane is present?
> My second question:
> In lieu of a bicycle lane, should I start riding my bike down the middle
> of the right lane on Cornell Road at 8 mph? Should I ask the Street
> Committee and the City Council why a street designated as a collector,
> without any traffic calming devices (NE Grant Street) is designated a part
> of the City's Bicycle Way Network? This is not the only example of such a
> conflict, by the way.
> My third question:
> Are there any people out there who would like to express their views to
> our Mayor, the City Council, and/or the Hillsboro Street Committee?
> *Hillsboro****** Street Committee*
> ***Meeting Dates*
> 4th Tuesdays of the month at 6PM in rooms 105/115.
> Civic Center, Conference Room C113C
> 150 E. Main St.
> *Hillsboro**** City Council*
> First and third Tuesdays at 7:00 pm
> Hillsboro Civic Center Auditorium
> 150 E Main St.
> Work Session follows regular meeting in Room 113B
> (Third Tuesday only)
>
> As some of you who may have read any of my previous posts may know, I am a
> public employee for a certain municipality in the Portland metro area. Given
> my status, I have to be very careful when I pursue what might be construed
> as "political activities" while on the job (it's 7:55 am right now). So
> please consider this a heads-up. Those of you out there in the cycling
> community, if you feel the need to offer some constructive criticism of
> this viewpoint, it's up to you.
> Please feel free to forward this message to people in the cycling
> community, but*** PLEASE******** DO NOT**** forward this email directly to
> anyone at the City of Hillsboro.*
> Keep the rubber side down,
> Evan
>
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