Tumbleweed Posted January 12, 2016 Posted January 12, 2016 Saw this tweet as Peters was delivering her stats on road accident deaths over the festive season... Transport Department @DoTransport 2m2 minutes agoDrivers contributed 23.9% of the fatalities and cyclists 2.8% @DipuoPeters @SindiChikunga @TrafficRTMC @RAF_SA @SANRAL_za
Ryno. Posted January 12, 2016 Posted January 12, 2016 If that's true it's scary, considering a lot of riders do base training in December, so they are on the road a lot...
Tumbleweed Posted January 12, 2016 Author Posted January 12, 2016 The other 75%?? Pedestrians? Passengers 38-odd and pedestrians 34-ish...
Andrew_ew Posted January 12, 2016 Posted January 12, 2016 What would be an interesting statistic is what percentage of road users those number represent. E.g. what percentage of all motorists on the roads over that period were killed. I don't know if that information even exists.
raptor-22 Posted January 12, 2016 Posted January 12, 2016 I wonder what those stats will be when corrected to percentage users of the road
Tumbleweed Posted January 12, 2016 Author Posted January 12, 2016 My maths sucks - at least that's what my boss just said - but it works out at about one cyclist killed daily from December 1 to January 11, right?
mazambaan Posted January 12, 2016 Posted January 12, 2016 Gloomy stats. Overseas (1st world) people just do not believe it when we discuss it. I heard part of the delivery - 10% of the "pedestrians" were kids, 0 to 4 years old.
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