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I'm with fixed on this. I was talking to my grandpa this weekend, told him about my accident on my bianchi. He said "you idiot, what do you expect riding a fixed-wheel bike these days?" Then he showed me a scar on the back of his head where he'd ridden straight into a bus at high speed because he was trying to be aerodynamic.
This was about a year before he had the motorbike accident that screwed up one of his legs for the rest of his life.
My point(s) being, 1: I think accident-prone-ness runs in the family, and 2: He was around when fixed wheels were the norm, and HE calls them fixed wheels, and he's english. Well Irish.
Also wikipedia seems to agree.