The Florida DOH Injury Surveillance Data System has county-level data on
fatal and non-fatal injuries in a variety of categories including Motor
Vehicle-Pedalcyclist (MV-P) and Pedalcyclist-Other (P-O). Statewide in
2010 there were 4,117 MV-P and 18,540 P-O non-fatal injuries. In other
words, there were 4.5 times more pedalcyclists injured from hitting
fixed objects, falling, and bike-bike collisions than from crashing with
a motor vehicle. The data also includes 24 pedalcyclist fatalities not
involving a motor vehicle. The policy implications include more cyclist
training, encouraging riding more often and awareness of the need for
properly functioning equipment, in addition to building safe streets and
other places to ride.
You can see the data under " Florida Injury Data: State and County" at
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/demo/InjuryPrevention/InjuryData.html.
David Henderson
Miami-Dade MPO
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-----Original Message-----
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:41:50 -0500
From: Ed Christopher <edc(a)berwyned.com>
Subject: [H+T--Friends] A Data Question
To: TRB Health and Transportation <h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net>
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It was nice to see everyone at TRB. While there I was in a discussion
about the probably that bike crashes that result in injuries might be
under represented in our crash data. Especially when you consider that a
high percentage of the crashes do not involve a motor vehicle and never
make it to police records. If i were trying to get a handle on this at a
regional or state level are there any "non-traditional" sources of data
like hospital records that can be used. Anyone doing any work in this
area? This is becoming ever so important as we see more and mode
shifting going on.