Increase in Cyclist crashes 2000 to 2009 - 87% increase in SA
Some interesting stats here
http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=10737421993
The rate of cases involving pedal cyclists shows an average annual rate of increase of 6.8%. For both males and females in age groups 25–44 years, 45–64 years as well as for males aged 65 years and over, there were significant increases in age-specific rates over the 9-year period. The largest average annual increase in rates for males and females was recorded for those aged 45–64 years with increases of 14.0% for males and 14.4% for females.
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Permalink Reply by Sam Young on -
I wonder what the percentage increase in cyclists over the same time has been. It would be interesting to see how close the increase is to reflecting the increase of cyclist numbers, and what difference there is. An 87% increase might be a favorable statistic if it corresponds with, say, a 120% increase in the number of cyclists over the same period. Of course, no crashes are good crashes.
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Permalink Reply by rossmg on -
Super Tuesday Bike Counts seems reasonable, they have observed an upward trend approx 10% (2011~2012)
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Permalink Reply by Rob (Chewbacca) on -
theres more of us now :) we will conquer the world........muwaahaa haa :P
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Permalink Reply by heather on -
Sam, some info to start to answer your question.
http://www.indaily.com.au/?iid=60650&sr=0#folio=2. Published in Indaily on 15-Mar-2012 on page 2. More cyclists, more cars: Conlon stuck in the middle. Melissa Mack
. . . Standing in Victoria Square on the Tour Down Under village site yesterday, Conlon was pleased to announce that people cycling into the city had increased from 6150 in 2006 to almost 9500 last year, based on his department’s figures. “Whether or not you choose to ride, everyone enjoys the benefits of cycling as fewer cars on the road means reduced congestion and pollution,” Conlon said. Unfortunately, at about the same time as his media conference, the RAA announced an increase in peak hour congestion along every main route into the CBD. RAA senior mobility manager Wendy Bevan said the 50 per cent increase in cyclists, while welcome, would have had no impact on congestion . . . Conlon said the number of cyclists was increasing at a faster rate than the pattern for car and public transport usage. He said it should be possible to double the number of people riding bikes in the next five years. The minister said the government needed to keep up cycling and motorist awareness campaigns to improve safety. While spruiking Adelaide as a “cycling city”, he did not favour the strategy of the Yarra Council in Melbourne which deliberately makes roads uncomfortable for cars to encourage cycling. Yarra’s strategy has increased the number of cyclists in the council alone to more than 5200 and it has the highest rate of cyclists in the country. “You can’t annoy [motorists] too much by what you do,” Conlon said. “There are a lot of people who have antipathy towards [cyclists] on the road and we’ve tried to turn their minds around on that.” . . .
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Permalink Reply by Sam Young on
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Thanks Heather, If we've had a 50% increase from 2006 to 2009, it's probably reasonable to expect that we've had a greater than 87% increase in cyclists since 2000. Does that mean that our roads might slowly be becoming more bicycle friendly as more cyclists are out there? I hope so :)
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Permalink Reply by heather on
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Sam, there has also been an increase in road congestion (article above) that implies increase in vehicles. Search ABS census figures for vehicle registrations and method of commuting to work.
The report you refer to is about serious injuries, not collisions. Some info from my recent submission follows.
Official SA data shows that road casualties have decreased for total casualties, casualties per vehicles registered, casualties per licensed drivers, and casualties per SA population. Refer Road Crashes 2010 for South Australia, Government of South Australia, DTEI, page 10, Table 2,
http://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/70582/pinkbook2010.pdf. . . Official SA data shows that total road casualties have decreased (Table 4 on page 8), and pedestrian casualties have decreased (Table 4 on page 19). However, cycling casualties are increasing (Table 4 on page 18). Refer Road Crashes 2010 for South Australia, Government of South Australia, DTEI, http://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/70582/pinkbook2010.pdf
'Lives at risk from unsafe car designs', published in the Indaily of 18-Jul-2011 on page 1,
http://www.indaily.com.au/?iid=50415&sr=0#folio=001
Of all the claims to the SA Motor Accident Commission, 5.6 per cent are for pedestrian injury but they account for 11.6 per cent of all claims costs for rehabilitation – about $40 million annually. “The over representation in costs is as a result of a pedestrians vulnerability in any impact with a car,” MAC corporate affairs general manager Ben Tuffnell said.
Pedestrian and cyclist casualties tend to be more severe and require more rehabilitation costs. So from CTP and MAC viewpoint, worthwhile reducing these casualties and severity. Especially for cycling where more injured than pedestrians, and the casualty rate increasing.
2010 data from DTEI
2010 data from DTEI
2011 Data from MAC
2011 Data from MAC
2011 Data from MAC
Casualties
Of Total Casualties (%)
Of Total Claims (%)
Rehabilitation Costs
Rehabilitation Costs (%)
Cyclist
554
6.9
Pedestrian
353
4.4
5.6
$40m
11.6
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Have ANCAP publish NOW vehicle star ratings for vulnerable road users
Since 1999, ANCAP have reported the performance of over 40 vehicles in pedestrian tests (Ponte et al., 2004). ANCAP uses the Euro NCAP testing protocols so the results of Euro NCAP assessments can be published in Australia also. So why doesn't ANCAP include the star rating for pedestrians in the table for each vehicle?
Sam, at other times I have advocated for new vehicles sold in Australia to have mandatory high star rating for vehicle-pedestrian collisions. (Some car manufacturers / distributors have objected to this.) That equates to being safer for cyclists.
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Permalink Reply by Doddsy on -
An increase in congestion doesn't necessarily mean a higher % of people are driving (in the modal share sense), that appears to be mentioned in the independent daily.
"Conlon said the number of cyclists was increasing at a faster rate than the pattern for car and public transport usage."
Adelaides average population growth is around 1.1% a year.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Brisco on -
I seem to remember 10 years ago the Rann government commissioned a report, into whether cycling was increasing in the State .... .
The report was done by some very competent people, but never published. It was always awaiting a final sign off by the then Minister, Wright.
Now, for the public, knowing cyclist numbers, and trends, would be useful. It would put perspective into discussions on why crash rates are changing. The numbers of cyclists on the streets, is hardly a matter of grave national importance so it should not be a secret. Also one would think taxpayers had a right to the information they paid for. however.... the Rann govt refused to release it.
I wrote to DTPI asking for a copy - refused.
Got up a petition to get it out for one of the cycling organisations - refused.
I then put in an FOI request - I mean, having to put in FOI, to find out something as mundane as numbers of cyclists on Adelaide streets ....... anyway. Rejected
The next step was to appeal the FOI, followed by I think taking the State govt to court. I got legal advice - which was basically, appeallng FOIs was in those days, likely to be expensive and get nowhere, as the FOI legislation had so many loopholes, the govt never had to release anything.
And as far as I know - a few years ago - the report was still not allowed to be made public.
Good to see the government is now, very happy to tell us what cyclist numbers are! True progress!
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Permalink Reply by Tim on -
Maybe the cyclist numbers were seen to be a security threat - what with 9/11 and all that. You know if the word got out that there were more cyclists, better infrastructure might be built and even (god forbid) a bike share scheme - look at the links below - they aren't even from The Onion - the mind boggles:-
http://gothamist.com/2011/07/08/local_tv_reporter_warns_of_bike_lan...
http://grist.org/biking/2011-03-21-new-yorks-bike-lanes-are-homegro...
http://gothamist.com/2012/06/18/un_neighbors_concerned_about_citibi...
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Permalink Reply by heather on
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Mike, the mind boggles as to why one could not get such info via an FOI.
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Permalink Reply by Dale (rouleur) Riggs on -
No mention of helmets yet; that's disappointing!
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