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> 728 bike deaths, 30,000 car deaths.

Bikes have significantly higher deaths per vehicle-mile of travel than cars; so, if your goal is to get one person from point A to point B, bicycling is more dangerous. If its to get N people from point A to point B, and N is greater than 1, its even worse, because persons/car can easily be greater than persons/bike.

> When a cyclist breaks the rules, it only kills them.

Bikes kill or seriously injure pedestrians, too, and sometimes other bike riders.



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