Bicycle Fatalities and Serious Injuries
Bicycle fatalities and serious injuries are the total numbers of bicyclists and their passengers fatally or seriously injured due to traffic crashes on Florida’s roadways during a calendar year.
Methodology: Bicycle Fatalities and Serious Injuries
Bicycle fatalities is the total number of bicyclists and/or their passengers killed in a traffic crash on Florida's public roads within 30 days of the crash. The measure, bicycle serious injuries, is the total number of incapacitating injuries sustained by bicyclists and/or their passengers in a traffic crash on Florida's public roads.
Calculation
`"Bicycle Serious Injuries" = ∑"Bicyclists and passengers seriously injured (incapacitated) from traffic crashes"`
Reporting Periods
Definitions: Bicycle Fatalities and Serious Injuries
- Bicycle: A vehicle propelled solely by human power, or a motorized bicycle propelled by a combination of human power and an electric helper motor rated at 200 watts or less, including pedalcycles but excluding a vehicle with a seat height less than 26 inches from the ground when the seat is adjusted to its highest position, or a scooter or similar device.
- Number of fatalities: Total number of people killed on roadways as a direct result of a traffic crash within thirty days of the crash occurrence.
- Number of serious injuries: Number of disabling/incapacitating injuries (such as broken bones, severed limbs, etc.) from traffic crashes that prevent the injured individuals from engaging in normal activities and that usually require hospitalization and transport to a medical facility.
Date of last refresh: 01/19/2024
SOURCES
For 2022: Signal Four Analytics (S4) database as of November 15, 2023; any figures that include the 2022 data are preliminary and may change with future updates;
Prior years: Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) - Traffic Crash Facts Annual Report, FDOT State Safety Office