Cycling is less safe than driving, but safer than riding a (light) moped or motor cycle (see the question What are the main causes of bicycle crashes?). Expressed in number of road deaths per kilometre travelled, fatality risk for cyclists is well over eight times as high as fatality risk for car occupants, but well over three times less high as that for (light) moped rider and motor cyclists. In the last decade (2012-2021), fatality risk for cyclists hardly decreased, as shown by Figure 1.
Figure 1. Fatality risk (number of road deaths per kilometre travelled) in the Netherlands, averaged over three-year periods. Sources: Statistics Netherlands (Road death Statistics; Travel in the Netherlands (Dutch abbreviation OviN); On the road in the Netherlands (Dutch abbreviation (ODiN), department of Public Works and Water Management (Mobility Survey Netherlands (Dutch abbreviation MON)), edited by SWOV.
