Cycling and Risk Taking survey

Part of the problem is that there is no good data on how many cyclists there are or what gender, age, gears, etc. The best guess is that there are between 33% to 38% women on the streets of London. In terms of all casualties about 78% are men and 22% women. So that men seem to be more at risk than women. Looking at fatalities about a third or so of victims are women, although the numbers are small and vary a lot from year to year. The discrepancy comes in the number of HGV related fatalities, about half the victims are women, which is more than you would expect.

Just a note to Charlie's post. Whilst he is right to say that most years the split male / female HGV fatalities is 50 / 50 more or less, last year it was 8 females from 9.

http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/8th-female-london-cyclist-killed-by-lorry