Basic Facts - Bicycles

Bicycles

The Basic Fact Sheet Bicycles provides accident data for 14 EU countries (EU-15 without Germany) over the period 1996-2005. The fact sheet includes several basic characteristics of fatal road accidents involving bicycles. For example: age and gender, road network: area type and junction type, day of the week or the month of the year.

Bicycle fatalities made up 4,7% of the total number of road accident fatalities in 2005. In 2005, 1.214 people riding bicycles were killed in traffic accidents in 14 European Union countries, which is 0,4% more than the 1.209 bicycle fatalities reported in 20041 in the same countries.

Fact: A reduction of 32% in the number of bicycle fatalities is observed during the last decade in the EU-14 countries.

Fact: One third of bicycle fatalities are male riders over 60 years of age.

Bicycle fatality rates, 1996 and 2005
* Data from 2004 ** Data from 2003 *** Data from 2002	Source: CARE Database / EC, EUROSTAT Date of query: November 2007