This article is completely pointless without data on how many people are cycling now vs ten years ago.
I have lived for 10 years in the Dorf im rn and last week one happened for the first time that brutally one 50 y.o vs 70-year-old on E-Bike and a normal bike 🚲↔️🚲both were in Lebensgefahr after the accident and an ambulance had to come
I don’t know if the number of accidents has increased, but I notice every day that a large proportion of cyclists in Zurich have no respect for the rules, pedestrians and cars.
one word. E-bikes
>The increase in road accidents involving bicycles is greatest in the 55-64 age group. While there were around 2,300 accidents in this category between 2008 and 2012, the figure rose to 4,700 between 2018 and 2022 (+104%).
I think this is especially important as well, not just “earphones”. E-Bikes especially have risen in popularity since the pandemic, and precisely in that age-segment. People who haven’t been on a bike in a long time are now travelling at speeds that you’d normally need to be at least somewhat fit to reach (~25km/h). From my own experience, it’s really hard to judge the speed you’re going at with pedal-assist (and again, doubly so for people who haven’t been on a bike for some time).
And while I welcome the shift towards cycling, I’d welcome at least mandatory helmets for e-Bikes.
Full disclosure, I wear headphones while cycling as well, but currently I use bone-conducting ones (Shokz), so that I can still hear traffic.
Population rose 20% in 10 years too, so makes kind of sense.
this is another situation where statistics thrown around with no context mean feck all!
eg:
the country with most crimes per capita is Vatican… it has 1.2 per person… this means nothing if you don`t know that the Vatican has 800 citizens, and 5.000.000 tourists, and those infractions are done by visitors…
the country with most Nobel winners/capita is Iceland… it had 1, but at 300k people…
– E-Bikes
– No respect for traffic rules
– Use headphones to listen to music
– Type on the phone while cycling
– More cars because of increased population
– More cyclists because of increased population
> The increase in road accidents involving bicycles is greatest in the 55-64 age group.
There isn’t enough information in the article to track down the interactions. Such as between bicycles and vehicles or other bicycles. However one thing I notice from this age group is when a person who suddenly crosses a street or changes direction without looking often fits into it.
Biased opinion of course. Just like the 65+ crowd I see overflowing the small suburban Dorf parking area and waiting in long car lines every Saturday & Sunday.
I’m sure it’s the fault of car drivers, not the explosion in popularity of e-bikes, more people driving bikes and some people driving bikes as if they were on a tank that has always right of way in every circumstance.
Verwunderet mi ja nöd, so rücksichtslos we di einte Velofahrer sich benämed. Vortritt missachte, kei liecht , durs fahrverbot.
I nenn das natürlichi Selektion.
Han au mol mit einem disskutiert vo wege Liecht, seit er, das isch ned mis Problem di andere selled luege blablablab. Denn han ich Ihn gfrooged ob er Chinde hät, er jo hani. Ich toll, findets dini chinde a dinere Beerdigung den au lustig und wenns vo de Todesursach erfahred, well mer kei Liecht hät trotz liechtpflicht? Han denn nu es stillschweigends devofahre bemerkt.
Schös Tägli
It’s a bottom tier clickbait rubbish AI article.
It states that the accidents are due to a loss of control, caused by headphones and mobile phones.
When it elaborates, at first it comes to the obvious conclusion “Generally speaking, the greater the number of cyclists or the longer the distances covered, the more frequent the accidents.”. But the article fails to follow that line of thought in any way, then it disregards that conclusion, and decides that the problem is headphones and mobile phones, because these distract age groups 19-29, and 30-44, while age group 55-64 are the ones having most of the accidents.
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The original article in French, which the AI “translates” is actually quite decent.
It immediately states that the increase is because of increased bicycling. Then it mentions that the highest increase of accidents is in the 55-64 group, that there was an uptick in bicycling during Corona, and that other contributing factors can be distractions, and refers to a study that found headphones to be a frequent distraction in the age group 19-29, and mobile phones in the age group 30-34.
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…wait peop’e really wear earphones whilst cycling?
This article is completely pointless without data on how many people are cycling now vs ten years ago.
I have lived for 10 years in the Dorf im rn and last week one happened for the first time that brutally one 50 y.o vs 70-year-old on E-Bike and a normal bike 🚲↔️🚲both were in Lebensgefahr after the accident and an ambulance had to come
I don’t know if the number of accidents has increased, but I notice every day that a large proportion of cyclists in Zurich have no respect for the rules, pedestrians and cars.
one word. E-bikes
>The increase in road accidents involving bicycles is greatest in the 55-64 age group. While there were around 2,300 accidents in this category between 2008 and 2012, the figure rose to 4,700 between 2018 and 2022 (+104%).
I think this is especially important as well, not just “earphones”. E-Bikes especially have risen in popularity since the pandemic, and precisely in that age-segment. People who haven’t been on a bike in a long time are now travelling at speeds that you’d normally need to be at least somewhat fit to reach (~25km/h). From my own experience, it’s really hard to judge the speed you’re going at with pedal-assist (and again, doubly so for people who haven’t been on a bike for some time).
And while I welcome the shift towards cycling, I’d welcome at least mandatory helmets for e-Bikes.
Full disclosure, I wear headphones while cycling as well, but currently I use bone-conducting ones (Shokz), so that I can still hear traffic.
Population rose 20% in 10 years too, so makes kind of sense.
this is another situation where statistics thrown around with no context mean feck all!
eg:
the country with most crimes per capita is Vatican… it has 1.2 per person… this means nothing if you don`t know that the Vatican has 800 citizens, and 5.000.000 tourists, and those infractions are done by visitors…
the country with most Nobel winners/capita is Iceland… it had 1, but at 300k people…
– E-Bikes
– No respect for traffic rules
– Use headphones to listen to music
– Type on the phone while cycling
– More cars because of increased population
– More cyclists because of increased population
> The increase in road accidents involving bicycles is greatest in the 55-64 age group.
There isn’t enough information in the article to track down the interactions. Such as between bicycles and vehicles or other bicycles. However one thing I notice from this age group is when a person who suddenly crosses a street or changes direction without looking often fits into it.
Biased opinion of course. Just like the 65+ crowd I see overflowing the small suburban Dorf parking area and waiting in long car lines every Saturday & Sunday.
I’m sure it’s the fault of car drivers, not the explosion in popularity of e-bikes, more people driving bikes and some people driving bikes as if they were on a tank that has always right of way in every circumstance.
Verwunderet mi ja nöd, so rücksichtslos we di einte Velofahrer sich benämed. Vortritt missachte, kei liecht , durs fahrverbot.
I nenn das natürlichi Selektion.
Han au mol mit einem disskutiert vo wege Liecht, seit er, das isch ned mis Problem di andere selled luege blablablab. Denn han ich Ihn gfrooged ob er Chinde hät, er jo hani. Ich toll, findets dini chinde a dinere Beerdigung den au lustig und wenns vo de Todesursach erfahred, well mer kei Liecht hät trotz liechtpflicht? Han denn nu es stillschweigends devofahre bemerkt.
Schös Tägli
It’s a bottom tier clickbait rubbish AI article.
It states that the accidents are due to a loss of control, caused by headphones and mobile phones.
When it elaborates, at first it comes to the obvious conclusion “Generally speaking, the greater the number of cyclists or the longer the distances covered, the more frequent the accidents.”. But the article fails to follow that line of thought in any way, then it disregards that conclusion, and decides that the problem is headphones and mobile phones, because these distract age groups 19-29, and 30-44, while age group 55-64 are the ones having most of the accidents.
—-
The original article in French, which the AI “translates” is actually quite decent.
It immediately states that the increase is because of increased bicycling. Then it mentions that the highest increase of accidents is in the 55-64 group, that there was an uptick in bicycling during Corona, and that other contributing factors can be distractions, and refers to a study that found headphones to be a frequent distraction in the age group 19-29, and mobile phones in the age group 30-34.
Its E-Bikes.
And its ok.
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