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  • Not sure if you're taking the piss with that, but the table hides some other results which don't sit with that logic, such as that on a journey by journey basis, there are three times as many fatalities on air travel than walking.

    My point was really that statistics showing fatalities of accidents without relating it to what they had an accident with is a bit pointless.

    Basically your stats suggest that the safest way to travel is for everyone to be in either vans or buses. I don't think this would lower the number of road deaths.

    HGVs are very safe for the people inside them, not so safe for the people outside, something your stats don't show at all... unlike the planes (which are a risk in of themselves) if the world was only full of bikes and peds the number of road fatalities would drop significantly, so showing the deaths per km/journey/hour of them is a bit pointless, it's not the cyclist that is a danger it's the road users around the cyclist that are.

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