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@Husy
I may be wrong but I think as usual the statistics are misleading and mathmatically incorrect though I may be wrong. The statistic that for every 1 million hours of cycling there are 0.42 deaths concerns cyclists as a whole. I don't know who came up with the statistic or how it was calculated but I can only assume it relates to the number of deaths of cyclist on the road in a certain area divided by the total hours cycled in that area (i.e. the UK).
So the 0.42 deaths per million hours of cycling is not per individual but as a group of cyclists in the area concerned. You will then have to divide the 0.42 by the number of cyclists cycling at any one time to get the real percentage.
Statistics can be funny like that. Just like dividing the number of people who win the lottery one day by the number of people who bought a lottery ticket does not give you the true likelihood of winning. (you have to work it out theoretically in the case of the lottery).