Volume 394 Number 10211 16 November 2019
WORLD REPORT As more bicycle riding is encouraged for health and environmental reasons, an increase in cycling deaths is causing a public health dilemma in the USA. Susan Jaffe reports.
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A record number of cycling deaths in the USA is attracting scrutiny from the US Congress, city officials, and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the government agency better known for investigating aeroplane crashes and other transportation disasters. …Last year, 859 cyclists were killed in road traffic crashes, the highest number in the USA since 1990, and a 6·3% increase since 2017, according to research from the US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published last month.
…In a preliminary report issued last week, the NTSB recommended that public officials take several steps to reduce the number of cycling deaths. The last time it examined bicycle safety was 47 years ago. [Continued here]
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