{"id":156727719,"date":"2009-12-19T23:28:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T23:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=156727719"},"modified":"2009-12-19T23:28:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T23:28:39","slug":"risky-cycling-rarely-to-blame-for-bike-accidents-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=156727719","title":{"rendered":"Risky cycling rarely to blame for bike accidents, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny proportion of accidents involving cyclists are caused by riders jumping red lights or stop signs, or failing to wear high-visibility clothing and use lights, a government-commissioned study has discovered.<br \/>\nThe findings appear to contradict a spate of recent reports speculating that risky behaviour by riders, such as listening to music players while cycling, could be behind a near 20% rise in cyclist deaths and serious injuries in the second quarter of this year.<br \/>\nThe study, carried out for the Department for Transport, found that in 2% of cases where cyclists were seriously injured in collisions with other road users police said that the rider disobeying a stop sign or traffic light was a likely contributing factor. Wearing dark clothing at night was seen as a potential cause in about 2.5% of cases, and failure to use lights was mentioned 2% of the time.<br \/>\nThe figures were slightly higher when the cyclist was killed, but in such cases only the driver&#8217;s account is available.<br \/>\nThe data, which was analysed by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), showed that more than a quarter of all cycling deaths in 2005-07 happened when a vehicle ran into the rear of a bike. This rose to more than one-third in rural areas and to 40% in collisions that took place away from junctions.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe cyclists&#8217; lobby group CTC said the report showed that the government needed to focus more on driver behaviour rather than on issues such as cyclists wearing helmets&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2009\/dec\/15\/cycling-bike-accidents-study\">https:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2009\/dec\/15\/cycling-bike-accidents-study<\/a>oldId.20091219232839570<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny proportion of accidents involving cyclists are caused by riders jumping red lights or stop signs, or failing to wear high-visibility clothing and use lights, a government-commissioned study has discovered. The findings appear to contradict a spate of recent reports speculating that risky behaviour by riders, such as listening to music players while cycling, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=156727719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Risky cycling rarely to blame for bike accidents, study finds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156727719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156727719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156727719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156727719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156727719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156727719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156727719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}