A Casualty map just of cyclists.

[Speshact]

Though my route is absolutely rammed with cyclists, so more chance of a big body count.

This is a crucial consideration in considering the map. The fact that a non-direct route has fewer injuries showing needn't imply it's less dangerous - it could be that most cyclists don't use that route, favouring the more direct one.

[Jacomus]

Though my route is absolutely rammed with cyclists, so more chance of a big body count.

This is a crucial consideration in considering the map. The fact that a non-direct route has fewer injuries showing needn't imply it's less dangerous - it could be that most cyclists don't use that route, favouring the more direct one.

Very much so - I consider my route along big main roads, mostly in bus lanes, to be very safe. The part where I always have problems is down a sidestreet I need to use to get to the junction near my house.

[PhilO]

There really are astonishingly few with no other vehicle involved.

I had a very cynical* thought about that, last night:

The nearest fatality to me says:

15/4/07 Sunday 16:25
Female Going ahead left-hand bend
No other vehicle

A rider's eye view of the site, here.

Now, I cycle down there fairly regularly, and while you can get up a bit of speed down that hill, I really can't think of any way that you could crash hard enough to be killed there without some sort of outside assistance**. And it's opposite the entrance to the golf course.

Hit-and-run?  

*I've obviously been hanging around here too long!

**Perhaps a major mechanical would do it, but what are the odds?

[RJ]

**A short definition of Seriously injured is an injury which involves treatment as a hospital in-patient.

No out-patient-only injuries are mapped.

4 (none fatal) on my current outward commute, including one just past FirstBorn's school    Rate: 0.8 per mile

10 (none fatal) on my (shorter) return route (Rate: 2.5 per mile  ).

EDIT: Is Edinburgh *that* much safer than London??

[Biggsy]

An incident of mine where I was treated as an in-patient is not on the map.  It proves not all incidents are recorded properly or have the records passed on to the relevant departments, etc.  Bad.

[rower40]

I'm on there for the incident after which I woke up in Hospital at 4pm with no recollection of even leaving the house at 7am.  I've just checked my work log-book for the date at which the handwriting suddenly deteriorated, with a note "Off for 3 weeks - broken wrist".

[Basil]

I'm not on it either.  I have seen a similar map (forgotten location) that did show my 2007 ambulance ride.

[simonp]

Cross-Cambridge commute (CB1 to CB4), one-way: 5.5 miles.  18 serious, 0 fatal.

[gordon taylor]

I'm not on it either.  I have seen a similar map (forgotten location) that did show my 2007 ambulance ride.

This map maybe?

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Crash

[Basil]

I'm not on it either.  I have seen a similar map (forgotten location) that did show my 2007 ambulance ride.

This map maybe?

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Crash

That only seems to show deaths, Gordy.