Bicyclists represent 12% of all on-road injuries in Missouri
NOTE: This article has been superceded by a more recent summary of this same data.
Looking at the Missouri Highway Patrol's figures for bicycle injuries, the number is quite low--for the years 2000-2002, bicycle crashes represented between 1.3% and 1.5% of all traffic injuries measured by the Highway Patrol.
However, the Highway Patrol's figures only measure collisions in which a motor vehicle actually collides with a bicycle.
This excludes a broad range of bicycle-related injuries that happen on the road, such as:
- Bicylist hits a parallel bar grate, a curb, roadway imperfections, etc., and falls
- Motorist intentionally or unintentionally runs bicyclist off the road, however never physically contacts bicyclist
- Bicyclist must take evasive action due to motorist, avoids colliding with motorist but still crashes
- Simple falls, bicycle-bicycle collisions, bicycle-pedestrian collisions, bicycle-dog collisions, bicycle-road debris collisions, etc.
Here is a summary of bicycle and pedestrian injuries which includes bicycle-automobile injuries but also all other types of bicycle and pedestrian injuries on the public roads:
Missouri DHSS InjuryMICA figures, 1996-2002 ------------------------------------------- Number Percentage ------- ---------- TOTAL INJURIES[1] : 670,763 100.0% Bicycle injuries[2] : 78,724 11.7% Pedestrian injuries[3]: 23,144 3.5%
In short, when ALL on-road bicycle injuries are considered, bicycle injuries comprise nearly 12% of all roadway injuries.
Dr. Greg Luttrell is currently working to research in this area of bicycle injuries. Luttrell has found that, nationwide, about 10% of bicycle crashes are with a motor vehicle and the other 90% are "bike only". (In Missouri it is more like 94% bicycle-only and 6% bicycle-motor vehicle, according to the InjuryMICA data 1996-2002.)
Luttrell also says that "the average out of pocket cost of a bike only crash (not involving a motor vehicle) was over $3,200. Taken nationwide, this results in almost $1.5 billion in annual bike crash costs (again, not including insurance payments)."
Source
Source: Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services InjuryMICA, specifically: Traffic, non-traffic
Notes
[1]. Total injuries was calculated by adding the TOTAL from the "Traffic injury statistics" together with the total bicycle non-motor vehicle injuries and the total pedestrian non-motor vehicle injuries from "Bicycle/Ped non-motor vehicle injury statistics". The purpose of this was to include all on-road injuries, whether involving a motor vehicle or not, but to exclude off-road injuries not involving a motor vehicle.
[2] The total from the row labeled "Bicycle: Non-Motor Vehicle" in "Bicycle/Ped non-motor vehicle injury statistics".
[3] The total from the row labeled "Pedestrian: Non-Motor Vehicle" in "Bicycle/Ped non-motor vehicle injury statistics".
[4] Personal email communication with Dr. Greg Luttrell, gluttre@siue.edu, http://www.siue.edu/~gluttre/.
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