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June 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The rising popularity of cycling has been linked to a marked increase in the number of road accidents involving bicycles.
An Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report on transport accident trends shows the overall number of people injured in road accidents rose by an average of 1.6 per cent a year between 2000 and 2009.
About a quarter of those sustained life-threatening injuries.
But the annual increase was much sharper for cyclists (6.9 per cent) and motorcyclists (6.8 per cent), the report released on Monday showed.
AIHW researcher James Harrison said there was an even steeper increase in the rate of middle aged men injured on bicycles and motorcycles.
“It looks like we’re talking about this as a reflection of the rise in the activity of cycling for fitness and to some extent transport,” Professor Harrison told AAP.
“While that’s good in many ways and to be welcomed, it doesn’t come without this particular cost of a rise in hospitalised serious injuries.”
The rates of motorcyclists injured per 10,000 registered vehicles were consistently nine or 10 times higher than for car drivers and passengers over the nine years.
Professor Harrison said there also needed to be more attention paid to cyclists and motorcyclists injured off-road.
“There’s a lot of agencies whose concern is road safety and it’s clearly within their remit to be concerned about on-road crashes involving motorcyclists and cyclists,” he said.
“But it’s less clear the extent to which the remit of those authorities extends to the injuries resulting from off-road crashes.
“The off-road ones certainly warrant some attention.”
Another AIHW report released on Monday found the rates of serious injuries in accidents involving trains dropped by just over five per cent a year over the same nine-year period.
The most common injuries happened while people were boarding or alighting from a train.
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