Abstract
In 2011, 677 pedal-cyclists were killed and an additional 48,000 were injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes. Pedal-cyclist deaths accounted for 2 percent of all motor vehicle traffic fatalities (Table 1), and made up 2 percent of the people injured in traffic crashes during the year. For the purpose of this Traffic Safety Fact Sheet, bicyclists and other cyclists include riders of two-wheel non-motorized vehicles, tricycles, and unicycles powered solely by pedals. Throughout the remainder of this fact sheet the term pedal-cyclist will be used to identify these cyclists. The number of pedal-cyclists killed in 2011 is 9 percent higher than the 623 pedal-cyclists killed in 2010. (Author/publisher)