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“Bike Bedlam” Fact Check: NYC Bike-Ped Injuries Drop From Low to Lower

Ben Fried, 18 August 2010, StreetsBlog
One of the claims on Monday night's "Bike Bedlam" segment that seemed off to me was reporter Tony Aiello's assertion that "the city doesn't keep a central database of bike versus pedestrian accidents." The first reason it seemed skewed is that the number of bike-on-ped crashes causing injury is minuscule compared to the violence visited on New Yorkers by auto traffic. The second reason is that the state, not the city, is the authoritative source for traffic injury data.
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