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Last year, 716 cyclists died in traffic accidents and 52,000 others were injured, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.
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- Review of a really crap year
- Answers to the fun quiz
- 4X4 pavement parker is shocked
- York twinned with Waltham Forest
- Teenage cyclist run down and killed
- Child cyclist run down
- End of the year fun quiz
- The bombing you didn’t hear about
- Car dependency and the NHS
- Child cyclist killed
- The long dying
- Crap cycle lane of 2009
- Terry Wheeler’s pork pies
- Absurd Bob Belam
- 716 cyclists killed
- More speed camera media froth
- Lily Cole’s bicycle has been stolen!
- Crap cycling and walking in Hackney
- And that’s why cycling is out of the question
- Walthamstow car crash man dies
- Christmas Greetings from Waltham Forest
- María Emma García Fernández: ‘accidental death’
- Dangerous Wirral
- O’Rourke’s drift
- British justice
- Cyclists = vermin
- The Hunter in the Snow
- I'm not cycling today
- Left-turning lorries
- British justice
- Abandoned bikes
- Sebastian Faulks dislikes cyclists
- Tony Blair: environmentalist
- Statistic
- Crashes in Croydon
- ‘Copenhagen Accord’ Souvenir Gift Set
- Teenager charged over cyclist death
- ‘Guardian’ speed porn
- Copenhagen and the bench on Somerset Road
- North Pole cycling news
- Anatomy of a fatal crash
- Kings Cross crap
- Cyclophobia in Los Angeles
- Exclusive photo of Santa
- Good news from Copenhagen and Waltham Forest
- Kitchen involved in collision with car
- In the courts
- New Bedford cycle lane protest
- Helpful cycle signing
- London welcomes reckless drivers
- Lorry knocks over bus
- The mathematics of reducing C02 emissions
- Falmouth lorry collision cyclist dies
- Worthing cyclist injured in hit and run
- Rubbish cycle parking
- Waltham Forest council driver using a mobile phone
- Two more cyclists killed by lorries
- Cyclists, crashes and fault
- Unsafe cycling in York – new crash
- In praise of David Beckham
- Child cyclist hit by Loughton driver who didn’t stop
- Parking of bicycles and cars at Blackhorse Road St...
- For students of irony
- Eight lights a-blazing
- Sat Navs kill
- Bike thefts rocket in Oxford
- The Manor Road contraflow fa(r)cility
- Continuing to lavish money on car dependency, not ...
- Dangerous cycling in York
- Cars, cars, cars
- Cyclist gets compensation from road rage driver
- British justice
- Yet more shrill cyclophobia from the corporate media
- Canadian road rage
- Falling down
- Cycling to school in Cardiff
- Cycling in Bromsgrove High Street
- Ed Miliband - just fancy that!
- Menace in Durango
- Just fancy that!
- Police still harassing photographers
- It's bicycle bounce!
- London’s roads: objectively more dangerous for cyc...
- If you have tears, prepare to shed them now
- ‘Cycling is still a minority activity with most Lo...
- Cyclist killed by bendy bus
- The failure of integrated cycling infrastructure i...
- Lewis Hamilton’s road safety crap
- ‘The majority of cyclists do not ride through red ...
- Woman cyclist seriously injured by lorry in Greenwich
- How to be seen by motorists at night
- ‘Renegade bikers’
- Road rage machete driver
- Ned Kelly's last stand
- The contraflow lane and the angry pedestrian
- 25 Waltham Forest lamp posts blazing in daylight (...
- ‘Epidemic’ of injured cyclists in Australia
- One way streets are anti-cycling
- High Street Liberal Democrats with eyes closed
- White van yob on the pavement
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