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Bicycle Safety; Respect The Numbers

By Christopher Walton, command safety manager, Navy Medicine Professional Development Center "The U.S. Census Bureau concluded in 2014 that between 2000 and 2012 the number of Americans commuting to work daily on bicycles, not including those who bicycle for recreation, increased from 488,000 to a whopping 786,000. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration there were 743 bicycle-related fatalities in 2013, and an additional 48,000 bicyclists were injured during motor vehicle traffic accidents. These numbers reflect a 19 percent increase in fatalities since 2010. The average age of those killed in 2013 wasn’t 7, 8 or even 9 years old. It was 44."

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