{"id":97,"date":"2004-09-27T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T03:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/?p=97"},"modified":"2025-04-02T17:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T04:42:11","slug":"danger_on_the_roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/09\/27\/danger_on_the_roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Danger on the roads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interesting data in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/world-health-day\/2004\/infomaterials\/world_report\/en\/\">World report on road traffic injury prevention<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/en\/\">The World Health Organization (WHO)<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/entity\/world-health-day\/\n 2004\/infomaterials\/world_report\/en\/chapter3.pdf\">Chapter 3<\/a> talks about risk factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Deaths per 100 million<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Travel<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Passenger kilometres<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Passenger hours<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Powered two-wheelers<\/td><td>13.8<\/td><td>440<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Foot<\/td><td>6.4<\/td><td>75<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cycle<\/td><td>5.4<\/td><td>25<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Car<\/td><td>0.7<\/td><td>25<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bus and coach<\/td><td>0.07<\/td><td>2<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that most people choose their mode of transport based on time, the figures for car and cycle are good. Foot and cycle are both short-distance modes of travel. While you may be safer on the bus, walking to the bus stop looks awfully risky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting data in the World report on road traffic injury prevention by The World Health Organization (WHO). Chapter 3 talks about risk factors. Deaths per 100 million Travel Passenger kilometres Passenger hours Powered two-wheelers 13.8 440 Foot 6.4 75 Cycle 5.4 25 Car 0.7 25 Bus and coach 0.07 2 Given that most people choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"1","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}