DETAILED ANALYSIS OF ACCIDENTS INVOLVING CYCLISTS AND MOPED DRIVERS. 1. CYCLISTS

INJURY-PRODUCING, POLICE-REPORTED CYCLIST ACCIDENTS IN SWEDEN DURING 1968 WERE ANALYZED TO DETERMINE PRE-THROUGH POSTCRASH CIRCUMSTANCES. SPECIAL KINDS OF ACCIDENTS, SUCH AS THOSE INVOLVING VEHICLE DEFIENCIES OR DRIVER INTOXICATION, WERE EXCLUDED. OF THE 1,697 ACCIDENTS, 79% OCCURRED IN BUILT-UP AREAS AND 68% BETWEEN APRIL AND SEPTEMBER. ONE-THIRD OF THE CYCLISTS WERE CHILDREN. MEN WERE INVOLVED TWICE AS OFTEN AS WOMEN. THE MOST FREQUENT CONFLICT (83%) WAS THAT OF CYCLIST--MOTOR VEHICLE, WHILE 10% WERE SINGLE-VEHICLE ACCIDENTS. THE CYCLIST--MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS OCCURRED MOSTLY IN BUILT-UP AREAS, AND 75% OF THESE WERE AT INTERSECTIONS. THE TWO MAIN CAUSES OF INTERSECTION ACCIDENTS WERE FAILURE OF ONE OR BOTH OPERATORS TO YIELD RIGHT-OF-WAY AND LEFT TURNS IN FRONT ON ON-COMING TRAFFIC. SPECIAL-PRIORITY INTERSECTION RULES WERE BROKEN MORE OFTEN BY CYCLISTS THAN BY MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVERS. NON-INTERSECTION ACCIDENTS WERE CAUSED MAINLY BY MOTOR VEHICLES OVERTAKING CYCLISTS AND, AGAIN, BY LEFT-TURNING CYCLISTS IN FRONT OF ON-COMING TRAFFIC. OF THE SINGLE-VEHICLE ACCIDENTS IN BUILT-UP AREAS, 45% OCCURRED WHEN THE CYCLIST PASSED A PARKED CAR AT THE TIME ITS DOOR WAS BEING OPENED TOWARD THE ROADWAY. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Rept No 173, 66 PP, FIGS, TABS, REFS
• Corporate Authors:

  Road Safety Research Council /Sweden

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• Authors:
  • Kritz, L B
  • MOHLIN, H
• Publication Date: 1971-5

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bicycles; Crash investigation; Crashes; Intersections; Motor vehicles; Traffic crashes; Traffic regulations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Traffic laws
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223728
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Nat Safety Council Safety Res Info Serv
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 17 1972 12:00AM