"Is dangerous cycling a problem" BBC

the numbers are irrelevant, unless turned into percentages, what if there was only 1 cyclist in the uk ( i know there are more!) but by that statistic it would make them a mass murderer!

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[]in 2008, pedal bikes made up 1.8% of urban, non-motorway traffic but were involved in just 0.25% of pedestrian deaths and below 1% of serious pedestrian injuries
[]during the same year, there were 13,272 recorded collisions between cars and bicycles, resulting in the deaths of 52 cyclists and no car drivers or passengers
[*]a study of collisions between cyclists and other vehicles from 2005-07 found police allocated blame to drivers in 60% of cases, to the cyclist in 30% and to both parties in the remainder