Number of cyclists killed on Britain's roads at record low in 2015

We should not be too worried if the number drops anyway - proving that improved infrastructure decreases deaths and encourages cycling is a positive message for further investment...

Cycling UK present the figures in a much more logical way:  http://www.cyclinguk.org/resources/cycling-uk-cycling-statistics#How many people think that cycling is too dangerous?

This shows that in 2004-7 there were about 52 deaths per billion cycled miles per year. This fell quite dramatically by 2009 to around 35 deaths per billion miles, and has been fairly stable since then.  During the same period, the total of serious injuries plus fatalities has increased significantly, so overall things are getting worse.

To look for the silver lining, 1 death every 27 million cycling miles sounds pretty low. But it's disappointing to see no progress in the last 8 years.

The 2005-2009 averagefor general road deaths and KSI is slightly misleading, as there was a strong downwards trend within this period. Overall road deaths HALVED between 1998 and 2007, due to concerted government efforts (it correlates nicely with the number of speed cameras) - a massive achievement. We haven't had the same government effort put into cycling safety though.

The source is DfT and yes, it's a fairly universally held view that pedal cycle slight injuries are significantly under reported.

However, you'd hope that they'd manage to include the fatalities. At least five of the omissions involved multiple parties and some have already gone to court.

Fatality figures are fickle and very easily abused, though. I've not yet got round to writing about why that is and what the problems are.

Where does the data come from? If A&E or police figures, then it *can't* include every "slightly injured", for example. Not every injury requires a hospital visit; not every collision is reported to, or recorded by, the police.

Yes, this really is obnoxious government doublespeak: claim to be behind a 'cycling revolution' while overseeing victim-blaming ads and zero improvement in KSIs.

So the trend hasn't changed?  And no-one at DfT or anywhere else in government gives a flying....

But worry not!  They've got it covered!!  Hang back.

Given the total failure of the road safety strategy for the past ten years for vulnerable road users, one might have hoped that the DfT would have started telling drivers not to kill us, not just keep repeating the mantra that it's up to us not to get killed.

According to Beyond the Kerb the real number is slightly higher  (106 or more) as DfT failed to include all data (e.g. none from Lancashire).

http://beyondthekerb.org.uk/casebook/cycling-fatalities-2015-stats19-dis...

But the trend is still the same.  No real improvement.

I am shocked that it was 100 and they consider that to be low!

I thought it was maybe 30 or 40 per year, but nowhere near 100.

Incorrect headline should read something more like - No Change in Cycle Fatalies since 2008.

Extract copied from Reported road casualties in Great Britain: main results 2015 - Page 11

Although the number of pedal cyclists killed on the roads in 2015 was the lowest figure on record, the 100 fatalities is very similar to the figures for each year since 2008. Since that point, the number of deaths has been between 104 (2009) and 118 (2012), with 113 in 2014. In statistical terms, there has been no change in the number of fatalities over this period.

Lies, damned lies and statistics, poor reporting Road CC.

tldr;

no progress