The Geography of Danger
A map via This is London (thanks Berkeley TSC) that pinpoints bicycle crashes in 2007. While an interesting first step, it doesn’t link up to details on exposure details, nor street characteristics, nor time of day, nor exact crash causality — not to mention the danger itself that people view a couple of red dots on their street and think they see a pattern when regression to the mean may see no incidents on that street for the next few years.
But this hints at the evolving potential of GIS, etc.
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March 20th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Here is a similar 2008 collection from of Toronto, details include fatalities,injuries and no injuries.
cheers!
March 22nd, 2009 at 4:04 pm
It’s an interesting approach to making cycling safer - that of pointing out crashes & putting people off cycling! We live in a culture of fear in the UK where the merest mention of cycling prompts cries of ‘wear a helmet’ while our population is approaching an obesity epedemic. Trying to deal with safety on this level rarely has benefit (except for perhaps a few high incident points where there is bad road design) - we badly need to get more people cycling to get the ’safety in numbers’ effect - especially after the tragic death of Natasha Richardson, the cries for helmet use are louder than ever.
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
The San Francisco Chronicle published a Deadliest roads for cyclists story last year after a local deputy fell asleep at the wheel and killed two cyclists. The number two road on this “most dangerous” list is a road I and many other cyclists take frequently. There were a grand total of 2 deaths on this most dangerous road in a decade. No other information that could be used to mitigate risk was provided: i.e. time of day, weather, anybody drunk, the cause of the collisions, etc.