They did a 10 year revision of the data here in the UK and found on average over 1000 kids were killed as pedestrians by cars. I think I remember another study where they tried to evaluate how children of different ages understood traffic. Most kids under 8 didnt really see the cars coming, slightly older kids struggled to assess oncoming vehicles of speeds over 20mph but slow traffic made it easier for them to cross. Kids who did the old Bikeability training were even better at understanding traffic and assessing the risk, but that scheme was cut nearly 10 years ago under PM Cameron.
You can get more recent info on these stats and others over at Brake’s website
The British people conceive of the bike as an exotic machine used for Olympic time trials. We would never actually use one to go to the shops. This is fundamentally a nation of bigoted Dunning-Kruger morons that keep voting for the people who don’t build cycle paths and other progressive policy. Every day we fall further into irrelevance. These people think that if we act like Victorians we will achieve the success of that era, meanwhile the rest of the world has moved on.
I once had a Labour councillor tell me that “the car is progress, nobody needs a bike now!”
That was only a few years ago just after the 2012 Olympics.
They did a 10 year revision of the data here in the UK and found on average over 1000 kids were killed as pedestrians by cars. I think I remember another study where they tried to evaluate how children of different ages understood traffic. Most kids under 8 didnt really see the cars coming, slightly older kids struggled to assess oncoming vehicles of speeds over 20mph but slow traffic made it easier for them to cross. Kids who did the old Bikeability training were even better at understanding traffic and assessing the risk, but that scheme was cut nearly 10 years ago under PM Cameron.
You can get more recent info on these stats and others over at Brake’s website
The British people conceive of the bike as an exotic machine used for Olympic time trials. We would never actually use one to go to the shops. This is fundamentally a nation of bigoted Dunning-Kruger morons that keep voting for the people who don’t build cycle paths and other progressive policy. Every day we fall further into irrelevance. These people think that if we act like Victorians we will achieve the success of that era, meanwhile the rest of the world has moved on.
I once had a Labour councillor tell me that “the car is progress, nobody needs a bike now!” That was only a few years ago just after the 2012 Olympics.
Amazing. Like a 1960s throwback, the Mark Lamarr of dystopian politics.
Jay Foreman has some nice (and very funny) video’s about why Cycling isn’t more common in the UK in his series Unfinished London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gohSeOYheXg