Organisation: Cycling Scotland
Date of Publication: July 2023
Uploaded to Knowledge Centre: 18 July 2023
This report comprises an analysis of injury collision data published in Reported Road Casualties Scotland.
The key points to emerge are as follows:
- In collisions between bikes and vehicles, the person driving the vehicle is more often at fault (73% of factors contributing to a collision are assigned to the driver)
- Collisions resulting in serious injury to people cycling happen in every part of Scotland
- Wearing dark clothing while cycling is not a common cause of serious collisions
- Engineering, education and enforcement measures are critical to reducing fatal and serious injuries in collisions involving people cycling
Click on the link below to read the full analysis:
https://www.cycling.scot/news-and-blog/article/road-safety-and-cycling–what-the-evidence-shows