Organisation: Welsh Assembly Government/Road Safety Wales
Date uploaded: 26th September 2012
Date published/launched: June 2012
This Statistical Bulletin looks at pedal cyclist road traffic casualties in Wales. It looks both at all pedal cyclist casualties and at child (aged 0-15) pedal cyclist casualties.
The aim of this bulletin is to show trends in the number and severity of these casualties and to show the circumstances associated with the accidents that resulted in these casualties. This is to provide information relevant to road safety policy in relation to pedal cyclist casualties; also to provide a starting point for any further, in-depth investigation of the accidents resulting in pedal cyclist casualties.
Summary of all pedal cyclist casualties:
• In 2011, there were 11 pedal cyclist fatalities, 107 serious casualties and 403 slightly injured pedal cyclist casualties. The total number of pedal cyclist casualties, at 521 casualties, amounted to 5.5% of all types of road traffic casualties in Wales.
• The number of killed and seriously injured cyclists peaked in 1984, then declined until 2000; since 2000 the numbers have fluctuated within a broad range between 61 and 84 casualties per year, but in 2011 this increased to 118 casualties.
• The number of slightly injured cyclist casualties peaked in 1989 and broadly declined from that date up to 2009. These casualties increased in 2010 and again in 2011 reaching a total of 403 people hurt.
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Welsh Assembly Government publication enquiries