Re: Crash Study (Was: Signals Always On)

[Eric Sheley <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:46 AM 07/29/1999 -0400, Brian Wolfe wrote:
 >I guess it was only recently brought to my attention. Study I was
 >looking at was The Hurt Study from 1981.
 >
 >http://www.seanet.com/~nickolson/hurt_sum.htm
 >
 >Brian

Yeah, that's the one I'm familiar with as well. The problem is that for 
current day evaluation of accidents, it is very dated. Remember that in 
1981 a lot of bikes on the road were not running any lights at all during 
the day (referenced in the notes by "reduce by the use of lights during the 
day"). Even to this day, I sometimes will be on the old Sprint and realize 
that I never turned my light on - you get spoiled by the auto on running 
lights of today......

I think that a large percentage of the numbers and statistics would change 
greatly if this was redone today.....

Maybe the government will give me some grant money to revisit it ......

- - Eric


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