Love some studies, they point out such interesting factoids. Like this one, reported at Treehugger, where they pin down the number of ways cyclists meet their doom. There appear to be lots of creative ways to total cyclists at intersetcions, and some neat codenames they've developed amongst themselves. A true subculture, and I think I mean that in the truest meaning of the prefix.
The most interesting factoid to come out of it is that 30% of the fatal collisions seem to involve cyclists riding against the flow of traffic. Fully one third of cyclists aren't actually being deliberately cruelly and coolly killed by mean nasty car drivers, they are just being subject to Darwinian selection kicking in.
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